European Union is launching an age-verification app to shield children online. India's Karnataka state has banned social media for under-16...

Indonesia's social media curbs, which the government says ⁠are intended ⁠to reduce the risk of cyberbullying and addiction, follow a ban in...

The video sharing app said it began transferring European user information to a data center in Dublin. Two more data centers, another in Ir...

The company released a reorganised set of community guidelines that include eight principles to guide content moderation decisions.

The federal privacy regulator, as well as provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta, will examine whether TikTok's pr...

The US state of Indiana has sued popular social media app TikTok over safety and security breaches.

TikTok has revealed that some employees in China can access the data of users in the United Kingdom and the European Union.

The Italian watchdog had informed Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) of TikTok's potential breaches of EU data rules. The Irish bod...

TikTok gathers an immense amount of data with every interaction by a user. This ranges from knowing who your friends are, what you discuss ...

Ireland's Data Protection Commission, which is lead EU regulator for many of the world's top internet firms due to the location of their re...

TikTok said the changes, targeted at users aged 13 to 17 years old, will be rolled out globally.

In a statement, the regulator said that although TikTok had committed to ban registration for children aged under 13, it was nonetheless ea...

Starting Wednesday, the default privacy setting for TikTok users aged 13 to 15 will be private. That means only someone the user approves a...

TikTok has come under increased scrutiny by several EU data watchdogs over children’s data.

In many ways, TikTok’s situation is similar to the public relations frenzy over Zoom Video Communications Inc. in early April. At the time,...

The content that goes viral on Chinese video apps such as TikTok, Kwai and Bigo Live is often viewed as dangerously close to exposing child...

With risqué humour and raunchy content, video apps pose a big risk for pre-teens & adolescents.