TikTok is facing legal backlash around the worldTikTok is increasingly facing global scrutiny due to concerns over its ties to China and its influence on politics, misinformation, and men...
09 Jan, 2025, 11.55 AM IST
From India to US, here’s a list of countries that have banned TikTokCanada on Wednesday directed the video app TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese tech giant, to close its offices in the country because of n...
08 Nov, 2024, 08.52 AM IST
Canada shuts TikTok's offices over national security risksThe app, hugely popular around the world, will still be available for people to use in Canada, according to François-Philippe Champagne, th...
08 Nov, 2024, 07.55 AM IST
UK fined TikTok nearly USD 16 million for misusing children's personal dataTikTok has been fined almost $16m by the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) for breaching data protection laws, including misusing ...
07 Apr, 2023, 08.24 AM IST
Australia to ban TikTok on government devicesPrime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to a government-wide ban on the use of TikTok after the completion of a review by the Home Affairs d...
04 Apr, 2023, 02.53 PM IST
Japan lawmakers eye ban on TikTok, others if used improperlyMany US lawmakers are calling on the Biden administration to ban the popular Chinese-owned social media app, alleging the app could be used...
27 Mar, 2023, 06.41 PM IST
France bans TikTok on the staff phones of civil servants over cybersecurity concernsFrance has banned the use of TikTok on work phones of civil servants due to cybersecurity concerns.
25 Mar, 2023, 04.27 PM IST
France to ban TikTok on work phones of civil servantsFrance will ban the use of Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the work phones of civil servants, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Gu...
24 Mar, 2023, 06.24 PM IST
From India to UK, here are the countries that have ban on TikTokThe company's CEO faced a grilling Thursday from U.S. lawmakers. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology company Bytedance, has lo...
23 Mar, 2023, 09.47 PM IST
TikTok is banned in New Zealand on parliamentarians' phonesTikTok said that the company wasn’t consulted or notified of the ban by New Zealand.
17 Mar, 2023, 08.36 PM IST
New Zealand to ban TikTok on devices with access to parliamentary networkTikTok will be banned on all devices with access to New Zealand's parliamentary network by the end of March, said Parliamentary Service Chi...
17 Mar, 2023, 08.44 AM IST
Tech giants to self-regulate in reducing harmful content in New ZealandMeta, Google, TikTok, Amazon and Twitter had signed a code of practice, said Netsafe, a New Zealand government-funded internet-safety group.
25 Jul, 2022, 01.08 PM IST
Timeline: ByteDance founder who put TikTok on global map to quit as CEOZhang, 38, turned ByteDance into a social media powerhouse which has also had many brushes with global regulators
20 May, 2021, 04.19 PM IST
How ShantyTok became the latest trend on TikTokSea shanties are folk song genre invented by sailors to recount their lives on the sea.
17 Jan, 2021, 09.00 AM IST
Oracle enters race to buy TikTok's U.S. operations: ReportMicrosoft is particularly interested in buying TikTok in Europe and India, where it was recently banned by the Indian government after bord...
19 Aug, 2020, 03.59 PM IST
Microsoft-TikTok deal unlikely to be taxed in India, according to officialsAlthough TikTok had a large subscriber base in India, pegged at 200 million, the value of the business is much below the threshold. The bul...
08 Aug, 2020, 02.12 PM IST
Trump to give TikTok's Chinese owner 45 days to reach a deal to sell to Microsoft: SourcesFollowing a discussion between Trump and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the Redwood, Washington-based company said in a statement that it wou...
03 Aug, 2020, 08.33 AM IST