Senate Intelligence Committee Calls On FTC To Investigate TikTok For ‘Deception’

China-based employees at TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, repeatedly accessed sensitive U.S. user data “in contravention of several public representations," the committee said. TikTok employees who work with sensitive US user…

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Meta Launches New Legal Proceedings Against Data Scraping, Helping to Establish Precedent Around Misuse

Meta has launched two new legal actions against data scraping sites, which have extracted user data from both Instagram and Facebook for unauthorized use, while it’s also seen a new…

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Twitter Tests New Bitmoji Integration to Display Your Digital Character as Your Twitter Profile Image

This is interesting – Twitter is experimenting with a new integration that would enable users to display their Bitmoji character as their Twitter profile image, providing another way to use…

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