“National Security Risk”: TikTok Responds To Concerns Over User Data, Republican’s Request To Remove App From Apple & Google Stores

TikTok is an established provider of entertainment worldwide, but is also becoming increasingly popular as a news source with UK adults.

Ladies’ night! Ahead of her second child’s arrival, Khloé Kardashian enjoyed a fun outing with Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner.

A disgusting woman was caught on CCTV letting a poo fall out of her sundress and onto a cafe floor - with an unfortunate man then slipping on it.

Michele Amabile Angermiller The Future X, a group made up of three singers and four dancers discovered on TikTok by producer Simon Fuller (“American Idol,” “So You Think You Can Dance”), is teaming up with the Honda Civic Tour with a new format designed to connect fans through live shows and online content.The Future X, cast after auditioning first on TikTok through a hashtag challenge that generated more than 300 million views, will embark on a seven-city U.S. tour complemented by “entertaining TikTok content.” The individual members will chronicle their road to their Honda Civic Tour performances on top of each 2022 Civic Tour stop being filmed, exclusively for TikTok.The Honda Civic Tour is an annual promotional tour sponsored by the carmaker that in the past has featured established artists like last year’s virtual headliner H.E.R., as well as Maroon 5, OneRepublic, the pairing of Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato, Blink-182, Black Eyed Peas, One Direction and Charlie Puth.

Maren Morris is having the last laugh at the expense of “American Idol.”

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVeteran security exec Roland Cloutier is stepping down after two and half years as TikTok’s global chief security officer. According to TikTok, the change is part of a restructuring in how the app provider, owned by China’s ByteDance, manages data of U.S.-based users — amid heightened scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers.“Part of our evolving approach has been to minimize concerns about the security of user data in the U.S., including the creation of a new department to manage U.S.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe CEO of TikTok tried to reassure U.S. lawmakers — who have renewed concerns over its sharing of U.S. user data with employees in China — that the video app company is taking steps to restrict that access to only a “narrow” slice of data.TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew sent a letter dated June 30 to nine GOP senators in response to their inquiry this week “demanding answers on TikTok’s backdoor data access for Beijing,” a reference to China’s communist regime.

The Chainsmokers have spoken out after their track ‘Paris’ began trending on TikTok as a pro-abortion anthem.The EDM duo’s 2017 song started gaining traction on the video platform following the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that protects a person’s right to safely terminate a pregnancy in the US.For the first time in nearly five decades, abortion will no longer be protected as a federal right in America.

“TikTok is not just another video app. That’s the sheep’s clothing.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok, the massively popular short-form video app, is in the crosshairs of American policymakers again over its ownership by Chinese internet giant ByteDance.Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner of the FCC, posted a letter to Apple and Google on Twitter, urging the tech giants to remove TikTok from their respective app stores — calling it “an unacceptable national security risk.”“TikTok is not just another video app. That’s the sheep’s clothing,” Carr, who was appointed to the FCC in 2017 by Donald Trump, said in the tweet Tuesday accompanying the letter.

A TikToker who explained how to read a weather app has gotten it wrong, according to experts.