The changes will drive “higher default standards for user privacy and safety,” according to TikTok. TikTok has announced broad and sweeping changes to the app’s privacy settings for its teenage users. The changes affect the default privacy settings for all users under the age of 18, though they are different depending on what age group you fall into if you’re under 18. Here’s how the changes break down: Read Full Story

The social media giant's attempt to compete with TikTok and Pinterest clearly failed.

Australia’s Information and Privacy Commissioner is taking Facebook to court, alleging serious privacy breaches that saw the personal data of more than 300,000 local consumers potentially disclosed to Cambridge Analytica for political profiling.

Zoom-bombers have been recording their exploits and uploading the footage to YouTube and TikTok. In some cases, the videos are a privacy issue because they show AA and Narcotics Anonymous meetings.

TikTok is about to be banned by the US government, and young people are unhappy about it. Millennials and Gen Z aren't worried about privacy or China.

CEO Kevin Mayer published an open letter blasting Facebook for allegedly trying to snuff out its competition—namely, TikTok. On Wednesday morning, TikTok’s new CEO, Kevin Mayer, published an open letter blasting Facebook for allegedly trying to snuff out its competition—namely, TikTok—with “maligning attacks” that are “disguised as patriotism.” Read Full Story

Instead of banning them outright, the Trump administration should instead enact a sweeping privacy law, which would protect Americans’ data. The Trump administration’s recently announced bans on Chinese-owned social media platforms TikTok and WeChat could have unintended consequences. The orders bar the apps from doing business in the U.S. or with U.S. persons or businesses after September 20 and require divestiture of TikTok by November 12. Read Full Story

With Smart Speaker sales in the US expected to reach 39 million units this year, and the majority of Smart Speaker users searching for media content on their devices, content discoverability has become more important. However, one thing standing in the way of consumers using their Smart Speakers for content discovery is privacy, per a… Read More » The post Six in 10 Voice Control Users Say Privacy Is an Important Concern appeared first on Marketing Charts .

​Oracle has been named as part of a TikTok proposal to the US Government to try and overcome security concerns around the social media platform, knocking out rival, Microsoft, for the prize.

The Trump administration has said it is considering banning TikTok, claiming that it hoovers up user data and is owned by a Chinese company as a national security threat.