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TikTok Postpones Privacy Policy Update in Europe After Italy Warns of GDPR Breach

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Popular video-sharing platform TikTok on Tuesday agreed to pause a controversial privacy policy update that could have allowed it to serve targeted ads based on users' activity on the social video platform without their permission to do so. The reversal, reported byΒ TechCrunch, comes a day after the Italian data protection authority β€” the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali β€” warned the

TikTok Assures U.S. Lawmakers it's Working to Safeguard User Data From Chinese Staff

By Ravie Lakshmanan
Following heightened worries that U.S. users' data had been accessed by TikTok engineers in China between September 2021 and January 2022, the company sought to assuage U.S. lawmakers that it's taking steps to "strengthen data security." The admission that some China-based employees can access information from U.S. users came in a letter sent to nine senators, which further noted that the
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