Everyone’s favorite app is definitely not in the good graces of the European Union. Irish regulators just hit the massive video-sharing platform with a $367 million fine for mishandling child users’ data and gave the app three months to fix it.
TikTok officially launched its online shopping feature in the U.S. nearly a year after it first started testing the waters, the company announced on Tuesday.
The European Union is now coming out and saying what they, and everybody else, already knows. The six big tech companies, including Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, are the six big “gatekeepers” of our modern online ecosystem. These companies now have to make sure that all of the 22…
JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images
PBS/Sesame Street
SrdjanPav/Getty Images
US government regulators reportedly tried to come to an agreement with TikTok to prevent banning the app that would have granted the federal government vast powers over the app.
In true The Voice-meets-Black Mirror fashion, everyone’s favorite time-waster TikTok has recently announced a live, global singing competition with the winner taking home a seemingly hefty prize.
Security breaches rose by a shocking 156% globally from the first quarter of 2023 to quarter two, according to a report published by VPN service SurfShark on Tuesday.
GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images