U.K. authorities have fined TikTok 12.7 million pounds, equivalent to $15.8 million, for breaching the country’s data-protection laws, including the misuse of…
SYDNEY—Australia said it will ban TikTok on all government-issued digital devices, following the U.S. and other intelligence-sharing allies in response to concerns about data security on the…
The metaverse that was the hot thing in tech less than two years ago has cooled. Meanwhile, the price for virtual real estate in some online worlds, where users can hang out as avatars, has…
WASHINGTON—TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Zi Chew has navigated both Western and Chinese business over the course of his fast rise to the corner office. But on Thursday, the 40-year-old…
PARIS—Emma Moreau is planning to vote in just over a week in an unusual referendum: whether the French capital should ban rental services from offering the electric scooters she uses several…
Republicans and Democrats pounced on TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, his company and its Beijing-based parent company, ByteDance Ltd., in the hearing Thursday. Over five hours, lawmakers seemed…
The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on the data-sharing practices of telehealth companies, focusing on widespread uses of data that many companies in the industry have failed to…