Violation

UK Watchdog Fines TikTok $15.9M Over Misusing Children’s Data

The UK’s privacy data watchdog fined TikTok $15.9 million for breaching data protection law including by using the personal data…

2 years ago

Cerebral Admits Health Data Sharing With Meta, TikTok, and Google

Cerebral, a mental health startup admits it shared the private health data of over 3.1 million patients with Google, Meta and TikTok.…

2 years ago

TikTok Data Breach, Hacker Stolen Two Billion Data Records

TikTok, once again became under scrutiny about its data protection as it store the billion of users personal information. Cybersecurity…

2 years ago

Microsoft Finds TikTok Vulnerability That Allowed One Click Account Hijacking

Microsoft disclosed details a high-severity vulnerability in the TikTok Android application, which could have allowed attackers to compromise users’ accounts…

2 years ago

Turkiye Takes Action Against TikTok Money Laundering

About $82 million was transferred to TikTok users in Türkiye since January 2021 reports Financial Crimes Investigation Board (MASAK). It said that…

2 years ago

TikTok’s In-app Browser Tracks User Click and Keystroke

Google Engineer and privacy researcher, Felix Krause (Vienna-based software researcher) published a report on Thursday which revealed that when TikTok users enter a website…

2 years ago

TikTok Still Promoting Banned Russian Content To Users

TikTok is showing Russian-made content, despite its own digital policies, found by Tracking Exposed, a European non-profit research group. TikTok…

2 years ago

Australian Firm Warned TikTok is harvesting Users Personal Data

Australian cybersecurity firm Internet 2.0 published a deep-dive into the social media application TikTok on Android and Apple platform. The…

2 years ago

TikTok Confirms Chinese Employees Can Access US Users Data

TikTok, confirmed employees outside of the US can access US users data, stoking further criticism from lawmakers who have raised…

2 years ago

TikTok Shares Users Data More Than Other Social Media Platforms

Social media apps usually collects user data and share with advertisement companies for the targeted marketing. Recent research by a…

3 years ago