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The Montana authorities have banned TikTok in the United States. The decision was made to protect residents from the collection of confidential information by Chinese intelligence agencies. Montana, with a population of over 1 million people, became the first US state to completely ban the service. The authorities say they may fine ByteDance, which owns […]
More than a dozen countries around the world have imposed a full or partial ban on TikTok. Most of the restrictions have affected the public sector or government devices, but many private companies are blocking the app unilaterally. Last month, the White House gave federal agencies 30 days to remove TikTok from all phones and […]
Ukrainian forces used cell phone signals and TikTok videos to target a unit of the so-called “Kadyrivtsy”, reports The New York Times in a major story about the full-scale war in Ukraine, citing the words of the head of intelligence, Kyryll Budanov. It took 40 minutes from the time one video was uploaded to locate […]
Now no one will be surprised by the information that programs track user data and actions. On the contrary, it is understood by default. However, not everyone knows that apps can track activity even if you’ve never used them or even installed them. This happens thanks to special markers embedded in the site code. An […]
Short video service TikTok has discovered a ‘high severity’ vulnerability that could allow attackers to gain access to a user’s account with a single click of the mouse. The vulnerability was discovered in the TikTok app for Android by the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which shared details about it on its blog. All a […]
On the Chinese social platform TikTok, despite the official exit from Russia and the ban on Russian users to publish content, such videos still appear. This is evidenced by the research of the non-profit organization “Tracking Exposed”. According to TikTok’s policy, which was last updated on June 30, Russian and international content is not available […]
The popular social network TikTok transferred users from Ukraine to the European “region”. This means that now the Ukrainian segment of TikTok will be moderated by other people. Oleksandr Bornyakov, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development, said this. He noted that previously a lot of Ukrainian content on TikTok was blocked, and the […]
The Ministry of digital development of Ukraine and its chairman Mikhail Fedorov published a list of restrictions that were introduced over the past day against Russia and/or Belarus. So, Google stopped licensing Russian Android smartphones. This means that Russian companies will no longer be able to produce smartphones with Android on GMS for the Russian […]