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Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...
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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...
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TikTok Ban — ByteDance Sues US to Kill Bill
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban
PAFACA SueTok: U.S. Courts “likely” to rule whether new law is constitutional—or even practical ...
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TikTok ‘Ban’ — ByteDance CEO and EFF are BFFs
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Shou Zi Chew, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban
7521 momentum builds: Shou Zi Chew plays for time, while Electronic Frontier Foundation says TikTok-kill bill is DOA ...
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TikTok Ban Incoming — but ByteDance Fights Back
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban
Hilltop BillTok: ByteDance mobilizing addicted user base, as U.S. TikTok ban steamrolls through Capitol Hill after unanimous committee vote ...
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TikTok Ban Banned — Montana Loses in US Court
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Donald Molloy, Montana, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, spyware, TikTok
For you plague, still: States can’t just ban apps, says federal judge ...
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Knives Out for TikTok as Journo Reveals her Spy Story
Clock Ticking for U.S. Ban: FT’s Cristina Criddle claims ByteDance spied on her—because she wrote damaging stories about TikTok ...
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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million
Richi Jennings | | Australia, Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, five eyes, information commissioner's office, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, uk, Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
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Google Suspends Chinese E-Commerce App Pinduoduo Over Malware
BrianKrebs | | A Little Sunshine, BreachForums, Bytedance, DarkNavy, Data breaches, google, Latest Warnings, Liu Huafang, PDD Holdings, Pinduoduo, Project Zero, Temu, TikTok, Web Fraud 2.0, weibo
Google says it has suspended the app for the Chinese e-commerce giant Pinduoduo after malware was found in versions of the app. The move comes just weeks after Chinese security researchers published ...

Ban TikTok, say FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, GOP, DNC, POTUS (but not ACLU)
Richi Jennings | | ACLU, Biden administration, Bytedance, CIA, DATA Act, DNI, FBI, FBI Director Christopher Wray, nsa, RESTRICT Act, SB Blogwatch, senate hearing, TikTok, US Senate, White House
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. RESTRICT: The White House and both sides of the Senate agree that TikTok needs to be stopped—or at least RESTRICT’ed. A bipartisan bill seeks to make that happen ...
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