Ads might be annoying, but influencers are riskier: advertisers face a dilemma January 25, 2024 In Jess Jones' tech column: Influencers are everywhere, but advertisers are trying to wrestle back control
Stanley cup stampedes are crackers – but they aren’t Tiktok’s fault January 9, 2024 Stanley is a classic and seemingly workaday US brand – its first steel vacuum flask was invented by Victor Stanley in 1913. But after a century of quietly keeping Americans hydrated, Stanley cups got famous, Tiktok famous.
TikTok’s Women’s Six Nations sponsorship halted two years early December 12, 2023 TikTok only announced its four-year deal in January 2022.
These tech companies have breached the most data rules this year December 3, 2023 Big tech companies have breached their fair share of data rules this year and regulators have dished out penalties. Here are the largest ones.
UK firms flock to Tiktok to grab Gen Z sales November 6, 2023 Nearly 1.5m UK businesses are using Tiktok to promote their products or services to younger and “more diverse” audiences, new figures reveal.
Meta and Tiktok told to detail curbs on Israel-Hamas disinformation October 19, 2023 The European Union (EU) has ratcheted up its scrutiny of big tech companies – with demands for Meta and TikTok to detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas conflict.
TikTok taken ‘immediate’ action to prevent misinformation on Israel-Hamas war October 15, 2023 TikTok taking "immediate" action to counter misinformation spreading on its' platform following Hamas' attack on Israel.
Youths ‘film shoplifting for TikTok’ as businesses call for government aid September 16, 2023 Shoplifting and abuse at independent shops are increasing due to the cost-of-living crisis and youths filming it for TikTok, forcing some businesses to close, it has been said. Muntazir Dipoti, president of the Federation of Independent Retailers (FIR), which has 10,500 members, said 850 incidents of theft or verbal abuse are recorded every day. Incidents [...]
TikTok fined £296m by watchdog over how it processed children’s data September 15, 2023 TikTok has been fined 345 million euro (£296 million) by Ireland’s data watchdog following an investigation into how the social media platform processed children’s data. The fine was imposed on TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) by the Data Protection Commission (DPC) after the probe into how certain privacy settings and features complied with obligations under the EU’s General Data [...]
TikTok: Lawyers hope new data centre can ease privacy fears September 8, 2023 Tiktok has opened a European data centre which lawyers say could quell international privacy fears currently plaguing the app. This week the Chinese video app opened a new data centre based in Dublin as part of an effort to calm European data privacy concerns around the app’s links to China. ‘Project Clover’, as it has [...]