TikTok

Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids

Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors

Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 30

US claims TikTok shipped personal data to China – very personal data

Not even Oracle could stop it, claims DoJ

Legal29 Jul 2024 | 29

TikTok's Asian e-commerce haul quadrupled in a single year

Rescued its partner in Indonesia as it dodged regulations

Off-Prem17 Jul 2024 | 1

Oracle fears US TikTok ban will dent its cloud profits

Dance! Dance for me!

PaaS + IaaS25 Jun 2024 | 5

TikTok confirms CNN, other high-profile accounts hijacked via zero-day vulnerability

Beware of zero-click malware sliding into your DMs

Cyber-crime05 Jun 2024 | 13

TikTok said to be working on US-specific version of its content algorithm for months

Owner ByteDance may be hedging its bets on overturning sale-or-ban bill

Personal Tech31 May 2024 | 10

DoJ, ByteDance ask court: Hurry up and rule on TikTok ban already

Forced selloff case will likely be appealed again ... see you in (Supreme) court

Security20 May 2024 | 8

TikTok becomes first platform to require watermarking of AI content

The deepfake dystopia we’ve been waiting for has already arrived

AI + ML10 May 2024 | 4

Baidu's PR head has a PR problem after workaholic social media posts

Updated Praising 996 culture is so Jack Ma 2019

Bootnotes09 May 2024 | 15

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law

Nothing like folks in Beijing lecturing us on the Constitution

Security07 May 2024 | 12

Think tank: China's tech giants refine and define Beijing's propaganda push

Taking down TikTok won't stop the CCP's attempt to control global narratives

Public Sector02 May 2024 | 18

Imagine if Uber offered car loans, not just rides. Its Indonesian analog will do this soon

Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok

Software01 May 2024 |

TikTok ban could escalate US-China trade war, ex-White House CIO tells The Reg

interview Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'

Personal Tech26 Apr 2024 | 167

ByteDance 'would rather' torpedo TikTok than sell it off

As app boss vows to nuke America's divest-or-ban law in the courts

Personal Tech25 Apr 2024 | 85

Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban

Updated Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!

Personal Tech24 Apr 2024 | 88

European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe

For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world’s toughest digital law

Personal Tech23 Apr 2024 | 25

US House passes fresh TikTok ban proposal to Senate

Sadly no push to end stupid TikTok dances, but ByteDance would have year to offload app stateside

Security22 Apr 2024 | 37

Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app

Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes

Software18 Apr 2024 | 53

Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster

Interview Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law

Public Sector01 Apr 2024 | 63

Woz calls out US lawmakers for TikTok ban: 'I don’t like the hypocrisy'

Go look at Facebook and Google, says Mac man

Personal Tech25 Mar 2024 | 66

Former US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin thinking about buying TikTok

SteveTok? TikMnuch?

Personal Tech14 Mar 2024 | 20

US House goes bang, bang on TikTok sale-or-ban plan

Bill proposes to do to China what China already does to the US – make life hard for foreign social networks

Public Sector14 Mar 2024 | 61

Trump, who tried kicking TikTok out of the US, says boo to latest ban effort

Comment Florida man would rather have app stay so as not to give gift to 'true enemy of the people' ... Zuckerberg

Personal Tech09 Mar 2024 | 93

US politicians want ByteDance to sell off TikTok or face ban

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms

Personal Tech07 Mar 2024 | 18

Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe

Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data

Public Sector20 Feb 2024 | 17

ASEAN bloc to build submarine cable network, link government apps

APAC in Brief PLUS: TikTok returns to Indonesian e-commerce; Chinese giants' EV battery swap scheme; India drops mobile tariffs

Off-Prem04 Feb 2024 | 1

Universal Music accuses TikTok of 'intimidation' and threats to replace humans with AI

Made-in-China social network allegedly made lowball licensing offer and abused its platform power

AI + ML31 Jan 2024 | 16

ByteDance slides around Indonesian social commerce ban with $1.5 billion buy

Takes huge stake in local superapp Tokopedia, for the good of the small business community

Legal12 Dec 2023 |

EU lawmakers finalize cyber security rules that panicked open source devs

Infosec in brief PLUS: Montana TikTok ban ruled unconstitutional; Dollar Tree employee data stolen; critical vulnerabilities

Security04 Dec 2023 | 17

Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream?

TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack

Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1

Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce

Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet

Legal28 Sep 2023 | 4

As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet

Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research

On-Prem20 Sep 2023 | 60

Irish watchdog fines TikTok €345M for mishandling kids' data

Tok is Tiking for app to bring processing into compliance within 3 months

Networks15 Sep 2023 | 6

If you like to play along with the illusion of privacy, smart devices are a dumb idea

Updated You're just giving manufacturers carte blanche to profit off personal data

Security07 Sep 2023 | 133

Microsoft DNS boo-boo breaks Hotmail for users around the globe

Infosec in brief ALSO: NYC says kthxbye to TikTok, slain Microsoft exec's wife indicted, and some ASAP patch warnings

Security21 Aug 2023 | 11

Tokkers can Tok like Tweeters can Tweet – for now

Scavenging for disgruntled former Twitter users? Fellow vulture, we honor thee.

Applications25 Jul 2023 | 14

Guess who's quietly bankrolling a legal fight against Montana's TikTok ban. Why yes, it's TikTok

Psst, some American user data still stored in China, too

Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 11

US govt now bans TikTok from contractors' work gear

BYODALAINGTI (as long as it's not got TikTok installed)

CSO06 Jun 2023 | 11

TikTok to let Oracle view source code, algorithm, and content moderation

It's all in the name of national security as Trump-era collab continues in Project Texas

Security23 May 2023 | 11

In a stand against authoritarianism, Montana bans TikTok downloads

Updated Dare we say, Broke App Mountain ... and yes, we know that was Wyoming

Personal Tech18 May 2023 | 41

Brits start 'em young with 20% of tots 'owning' a smartphone

And what are they doing with them? YouTube, lots of YouTube

Personal Tech17 Apr 2023 | 41

UK data watchdog fines TikTok £12.7M for failing to protect kids

Some 1.4 million under-13s used the app in 2020 by the ICO's estimates

Security04 Apr 2023 | 10

Australia takes its turn to kick TikTok off government kit

Even a politician who visited China last week has binned the app

Defense Tech Week04 Apr 2023 | 6

TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?

Register Kettle Our vultures who cover the news weigh in

Personal Tech30 Mar 2023 | 45

SHEIN has the look of America's next tech-meets-geopolitics fit-up

Chinese fast fashion vendor could be this season's TikTok thanks to alleged tax evasion, slave labour, toxic goods, and an outsized carbon footprint

Personal Tech29 Mar 2023 | 18

US cyber spymaster calls TikTok China's 'Trojan horse'

It's not a smoking gun, it's 'a loaded gun' suggests NSA's Rob Joyce

Defense Tech Week29 Mar 2023 | 30

Ammo-maker says TikTok's datacenter site could deprive it of electricity

'Our future growth is challenged by the storage of cat videos'

Energy Efficient Datacenters28 Mar 2023 | 41

France bans all recreational apps – including TikTok – from government devices

Meanwhile the US contemplates drastic action

Personal Tech27 Mar 2023 | 42

BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it

Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team

Security20 Mar 2023 | 69

TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report

Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls

Security19 Mar 2023 | 19

UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a 'precaution' over spying fears

Gov staff using it on personal mobes just fine... it's not like ministers use WhatsApp etc for business ... oh wait

Security16 Mar 2023 | 45

Meta winds down NFTs but will continue token efforts

'We're looking closely at what we prioritize to increase our focus' – which increasingly means staving off TikTok

Software14 Mar 2023 | 14

Dems, Repubs eye up ban on chat apps they don't like

Clock is ticking for TikTok and other foreign natter-ware

Security09 Mar 2023 | 14

Once AI can create endless viral videos, good luck switching off social media

Column Imagine humans … watching humans …watching TikTok … forever

AI + ML08 Mar 2023 | 57

US government sets a 30-day deadline for wiping TikTok from feds' phones

Last chance to film yourself doing a ByteDance, in the US and abroad

Security01 Mar 2023 | 14

European Commission bans TikTok from staff gadgets

Cyber Europe cyber worried about cyber threats, doesn't cyber use the other C word (China)

CSO24 Feb 2023 | 23