The social media platform changed its privacy policy last month, inviting users to allow it to track their specific location.

TikTok — now in U.S. hands after the social media service split from China-based ByteDance earlier this year — is raising concerns among some users about its new privacy policy, prompting questions ...

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But there’s some bad news, too. Successive U.S. administrations—both Biden’s and Trump’s—argued that TikTok posed a national security threat to America and its citizens, partly because of the data the ...

TikTok is growing its data harvesting empire, and avoiding the app won’t protect you – but some easy steps can keep you safe.

The whole purpose of the TikTok deal was to allow US citizens more privacy and agency over how their data might be used. However, days after the divestment was, at long last, finalized, some TikTokers ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy. The warning comes by way of a TikTok video — what else. And it points ...

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CORALVILLE, Iowa (KCRG) - Cybersecurity experts say moves to force TikTok to cut ties with its Chinese owner are generating a larger conversation about data privacy. The concern with Congress is what ...

On September 23, 2025, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC), the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec (CAI), the Office of the ...