TikTok fined €530 million for unsecure data transfers to China
Video Sharing platform TikTok has been fined €530 million by the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) for failing to protect personal data of EU users when transferring it to China, the privacy watchdog said in a statement on Friday. DPC Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle said that the transfers infringed the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) because TikTok […]
Ugandan TikToker jailed for insulting president
A Ugandan court has sentenced a 24-year-old man to six years in prison for insulting the president and the first family through his video posted on TikTok. Edward Awebwa was charged with hate speech and spreading “misleading and malicious” information against President Yoweri Museveni, First Lady Janet Museveni and son Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who is the […]
Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits
Utah became the latest state Tuesday to file a lawsuit against TikTok, alleging the company is “baiting” children into addictive and unhealthy social media habits. TikTok lures children into hours of social media use, misrepresents the app’s safety and deceptively portrays itself as independent of its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, Utah claims in the lawsuit. […]
TikTok: Mizzy in court over ‘prank’ videos
An 18-year-old man is due to appear in court following widely shared social media footage showing him walking into someone’s home without permission. Bacari-Bronze O’Garro, known on social media as Mizzy, has been charged with failing to comply with a Community Protection Notice. Other videos allegedly show him pestering train passengers and entering a man’s […]
