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Mar 22

TikTok CEO: App Has Never Shared US Data With Chinese Government

  • "TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, U.S. user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honor such a request if one were ever made," CEO Shou Zi Chew will testify on Thursday.
  • He added that TikTok's parent company ByteDance is not owned or controlled by any government or state entity. 
Read More at reuters.com
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Mar 21

TikTok Still Has Access To Years Of Indians’ Data, 3 Years After It Was Banned

  • Almost three years after TikTok’s largest market India banned the app, troves of personal data of Indian citizens who once used TikTok remain widely accessible to employees at the company.
  • Forbes has learned, almost anyone at the companies (TikTok and ByteDance) with basic access to their tools can retrieve and analyze granular data about past TikTok users in India.
Read More at forbes.com
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Mar 21

Italy's Antitrust Probes TikTok Over 'French Scar' Dangerous Content

  • Italy's antitrust authority said on Tuesday it had opened an investigation into the Chinese-owned app TikTok as it allegedly breaches its rules by allowing the publication of "dangerous content" inciting suicide, self-harm and poor nutrition.
  • TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, denied wrongdoing and said it would cooperate with the investigation.
Read More at reuters.com
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Mar 21

TikTok Bans Deepfakes Of Non-Public Figures

  • Previously, TikTok’s rules on deepfakes were restricted to a single line banning content that could “mislead users by distorting the truth of events [or] cause significant harm to the subject of the video.”
  • Now, the company says all realistic AI-generated and edited content must be “clearly disclosed” as such, either in the video caption or as an overlaid sticker.
Read More at theverge.com
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Mar 20

OnlyFans Star Elle Brooke Says She Once Sold Her Spit For £200

 

  • OnlyFans star and TikToker Elle Brooke has admitted she once managed to sell her spit for £200.
  • The model appeared on Taboo Room podcast at Cow Photo Studios, when she made the confession about some of the strangest requests she's had.
  • "I think that's pretty normal now", she said, describing how she'd even been asked to bark like a dog for money.
  • "Everything that you think is strange is normalised to me now."
Read More at indy100.com