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A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission has urged the chief executives of Apple and Alphabet's Google to kick Chinese-owned TikTok out of its app stores.Brendan Carr, the FCC commissioner, said in a letter to the CEOs, dated June 24 and sent on FCC letterhead, that video-sharing app TikTok has collected vast troves of sensitive data about US users that could be accessed by ByteDance staff in Beijing. ByteDance is TikTok's Chinese parent.Carr tweeted details of the letter on Tuesday."TikTok is not just…

WASHINGTON—A federal communications regulator has asked Apple Inc. and Google to remove Chinese-owned TikTok from their app stores, citing the security risks posed by the data collected by the short-form video site on American users.“It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data,” Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr wrote in a letter to Apple and Google, a unit of …

Photo: Ascannio (Shutterstock)TikTok promises to keep its U.S. users’ data safe and sound are not satisfying at least one member of the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a blistering letter Wednesday that the Chinese company has proved it can’t be trusted with the informationusers give it, and should bundled up and tossed out the airlock.Carr posted an open letter sent to both Google and Apple on his Twitter account Tuesday. In it, he called on the companies to jettison the TikTok…

SACRAMENTO—Social-media giants such as Facebook parent MetaPlatforms Inc. could be sued by government attorneys in California for features that allegedly harm children through addiction under a first-in-the-nation bill that faces an important vote in the state Senate here Tuesday.The measure would permit the state attorney general, local district attorneys and the city attorneys of California’s four largest cities to sue social-media companies including Meta—which also owns Instagram—as well as TikTok, owned by Chinese…

ByteDance has been investing in its mobile gaming business through key acquisitions and is finding success outside of China.Omar Marques | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesChinese internet giant ByteDance's nascent foray into gaming is showing signs of promise with spending across its mobile titles growing over the past year as it looks to challenge rivals Tencent and NetEase.The TikTok owner generated $1 billion of player spending across its mobile games between June 21, 2021 and June 20, 2022, a 16% increase from…

A group of six Republican senators on Friday asked the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen about an ongoing Biden administration national security review of social media platform TikTok.The US government's Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks, in 2020 ordered Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest TikTok because of fears that the US user data could be passed on to China's communist government.Last week, TikTok said…

OTTAWA—Canada approved legislation that targets what video- and audio-sharing platforms like YouTube and TikTok can broadcast to a Canadian audience, as the country follows in Europe’s footsteps in imposing a heftier regulatory burden on the digital sector.This marks the second attempt in as many years by Canada’s Liberal government to compel digital platforms, including streaming companies like Netflix Inc., to prominently feature Canadian artists on their services when users with a Canadian…

Hong Kong: China-based ByteDance has shut down a game development studio, laying off more than 100 employees, media reports said.ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, shut down the '101 Studio' in Shanghai it had acquired three years ago."TikTok owner ByteDance is disbanding one of its main game studios due to its disappointing performance," Nikkei Asia reported.The gaming studio had around 300 employees and according to the report, some of them have been transferred to other verticals within ByteDance.ByteDance's 2019…

When Jonothon Lyons began dressing up as “Buddy the Rat” and filming his antics around New York, he had no idea he was laying the foundation for a massive social-media following.Especially one with viewers primarily in India. Mr. Lyons posts his videos on YouTube Shorts, joining the creators who have helped the two-year-old short-form video service emerge as a significant rival to TikTok. Mr. Lyons and other creators say a key driver of that growth is India—a country of more…