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TikTok and Pinterest team up with Amazon for in-app shopping
09 Aug

TikTok and Pinterest team up with Amazon for in-app shopping

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Amazon has struck new deals that will give people the option to shop without having to leave TikTok or Pinterest, according to The Information. Users will be able to purchase items from the Amazon ads the pop up within either platform. Typically, clicking on an ad would take a buyer to Amazon's interface, but this deal will let them check out from within TikTok or Pinterest using the payment method and shipping address saved on their Amazon account.The Information says it has seen screenshots of the ads, which show more information than usual, including items' prices, their estimated shipping times…
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The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws
02 Aug

The Justice Department sues TikTok for breaking child privacy laws

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The US Department of Justice TikTok for violating a child privacy law and violating a 2019 agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for previous privacy violations. The lawsuit stems from an earlier investigation into the company by the Federal Trade Commission, which its privacy case to the DoJ earlier this year.The FTC had been looking into whether TikTok had violated the terms of an earlier privacy settlement with Musical.ly, which was acquired by ByteDance prior to the launch of TikTok. According to , the investigation found that TikTok had “flagrantly” violated both the 2019 settlement and the Children's Online Privacy…
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TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids’ Privacy
02 Aug

TikTok Sued by US Justice Department for Alleged Violations of Kids’ Privacy

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In March 2019, TikTok agreed to a US federal court order barring the social media giant from collecting personal information from its youngest users without their parents’ consent. According to a new lawsuit filed by US authorities, TikTok immediately breached that order and now faces penalties of $51,744 per violation per day.TikTok “knowingly allowed children under 13 to create accounts in the regular TikTok experience and collected extensive personal information from those children without first providing parental notice or obtaining verifiable parental consent,” the US Department of Justice alleged on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission in a complaint lodged…
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TikTok’s Sound Search lets you find videos by humming or singing
30 Jul

TikTok’s Sound Search lets you find videos by humming or singing

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There are so many songs and trends floating around on TikTok that it can be hard to keep track of them. If you're open to singing — or at least humming — a little tune, that might change. TikTok has started rolling out a new feature called "Sound Search" that allows you to hum, sing or play a song, and the platform will show you the tune and videos that use it, TechCrunch reports.That last point sets it apart from YouTube, which lets you search for a song in the same way but doesn't pull up videos that have it.…
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DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion
27 Jul

DOJ says TikTok collected users’ views on issues like abortion, gun control and religion

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The Department of Justice on Friday night asked a federal court to reject TikTok’s bid to have the law that could ban it overturned, citing national security concerns that include its alleged use of internal search tools to collect information on users’ views around sensitive topics. It comes in response to in an attempt to challenge the law that now requires its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app or it will be banned in the US. into law in April.In one of the documents filed with the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, the DOJ says…
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TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections
23 Jul

TikTok Lite Leaves up to 1 Billion Users With Fewer Protections

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In May, TikTok announced that it would automatically label AI-generated content on its platform. That's not true, though, of all versions of the app. A new report from the Mozilla Foundation and AI Forensics finds that TikTok’s Lite-Save Data version, aimed at users in poorer markets, not only leaves AI-generated content unlabeled, but also lacks other, similar safeguards.“Labeling is a very important tactic that platforms use to deliver some form of trust and safety,” says Odanga Madung, a Mozilla fellow and coauthor of the report.Users of the full version of TikTok, for example, will see labels indicating that content is…
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TikTok will still be a ‘gatekeeper’ under the Digital Markets Act, EU rules
17 Jul

TikTok will still be a ‘gatekeeper’ under the Digital Markets Act, EU rules

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As far as the EU is concerned, TikTok requires strong, ongoing regulations. The EU's General Court dismissed an action brought by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, which argued that the platform shouldn't be considered a "gatekeeper" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The designation came in September 2023, and ByteDance filed to undo it just two months later.ByteDance had painted TikTok has an up and comer EU market, citing pushback through the development of Reels and Shorts — the General Court disagrees: "Although in 2018 TikTok was indeed a challenger seeking to contest the position of established operators such as Meta…
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AI Is Rewriting Meme History
03 Jul

AI Is Rewriting Meme History

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Pretty much every online lurker knows the image: A man gawks at a passing woman making the kind of “How you doin’?” face that would make Joey Tribbiani blush. Ever since it landed in 2017, the “distracted boyfriend” meme, which took that stock photo and projected scenarios onto it, has been seared into the internet’s collective consciousness. Now, artificial intelligence is rendering the memory of that viral moment fuzzy, along with the memories of dozens of other memes.Often called “time traveler” videos, particularly on TikTok, the AI-generated clips currently bouncing around the internet take well-known memes and add context that…
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The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department
18 Jun

The FTC has referred its child privacy case against TikTok to the Justice Department

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The Federal Trade Commission has its complaint against TikTok to the Justice Department after a long-running investigation into the company’s privacy and security practices. “Our investigation found reason to believe that TikTok is violating or about to violate the FTC Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA),” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in on X.In a shared by the FTC, the regulator noted its investigation into TikTok after a 2019 privacy settlement related to Musical.ly, the app acquired by ByteDance that eventually became TikTok. The FTC “also investigated additional potential violations of COPPA and the FTC Act,” it…
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News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates
12 Jun

News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates

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Pew Research and the Knight Foundation just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media. There are a number of noteworthy stats in the research but, for me, it mostly underscores that news distribution is kind of a mess.It’s not that news has disappeared from X, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram, but the way that most users are encountering news content is vastly different from platform to platform. And much of what people say they are seeing is not coming from journalists and media organizations but influencers other unconnected accounts.Perhaps unsurprisingly,…
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