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01/20/2023
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By Ramon Tomey
UT Austin bans TikTok on campus, citing security concerns
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) has banned the use of Chinese video app TikTok on campus networks, following security concerns brought up by state and federal officials. UT Austin announced in Jan. 17 that it is permanently blocking TikTok’s access on its systems. Devices connected to the campus network via Wi-Fi or […]
01/01/2023
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By Belle Carter
Congress bans TikTok on official devices, calls app a security risk
The administrators at the U.S. House of Representatives instructed all lawmakers and staff to uninstall TikTok from official devices, calling the app a security risk to the people of the United States. According to official electronic correspondence, staff must remove and never reinstall the application from any device issued by Congress. “The Office of Cybersecurity […]
12/24/2022
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By Belle Carter
Shoshana Zuboff: Big Tech companies hijack personal data to control people’s lives
Social psychologist and Harvard University professor Shoshana Zuboff wrote in her book titled “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” that Big Tech companies Google and Facebook take control of their users’ lives by hijacking personal data. In a review of the book, renowned alternative medicine proponent Dr. Joseph Mercola said the information – also called “behavioral surplus […]
12/24/2022
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By Ramon Tomey
TikTok parent firm admits to spying on journalists as part of “covert surveillance campaign”
The parent company of Chinese video app TikTok admitted to spying on journalists as part of a “covert surveillance campaign.” Beijing-based ByteDance admitted to spying on Forbes journalists to determine the source of leaks inside the company. The “covert surveillance campaign” was launched by the company after multiple stories emerged exposing its deep ties with […]
12/15/2022
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By Ethan Huff
Is the CCP harvesting data on Americans from “smart” appliances?
In 2016, Haier, a Chinese multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company, purchased GE Appliances for $5.4 billion, creating a consumer products mega-conglomerate that actively spies on customers via their “smart” appliances and relays all that data back to communist China. United States Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo warned recently that the Haier-GE consumer products empire […]
12/15/2022
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By Belle Carter
Chinese activist protests against Apple’s censorship, collusion with Beijing
A Chinese pro-democracy activist embarked on a hunger strike in front of the headquarters of tech giant Apple to protest some of its policies. Han Wang, a graduate student of the University of Southern California, began his hunger strike at Apple’s Cupertino, California headquarters on Dec. 5. Local San Francisco press outlets reported that he was later […]
12/13/2022
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By Ramon Tomey
Taiwan bans TikTok from government devices, mulls nationwide prohibition
Taiwan has banned video sharing app TikTok from government-owned communication devices and is now considering extending that prohibition to the general public. According to an unnamed official from the Taiwanese Ministry of Digital Affairs (MODA), the ban on TikTok applied to government-owned devices such as mobile phones, tablets and desktops. Aside from the video-sharing app, […]
12/12/2022
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By Belle Carter
Indiana sues Tiktok over consumer data access and sexual content
The Indiana Office of the Attorney General (AG) filed lawsuits on December 7 against the popular Chinese-owned app TikTok for deceiving users about China’s access to their data and exposing children to inappropriate explicit content. According to AG Todd Rokita, the short-video sharing app owned by ByteDance has violated the state’s consumer protection laws by […]
12/06/2022
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By Kevin Hughes
Anti-Russia comments made by Pope Francis blamed for provoking Vatican website hack
The Vatican’s main website fell victim to a cyberattack, allegedly after Pope Francis made some anti-Russia comments. Conspiracy theories also floated as to the perpetrators of the hacking that crippled the Holy See’s internet presence. Matteo Bruni, the director of the Holy See Press Office, initially told news media that the Vatican.va website was undergoing maintenance and technical […]
12/02/2022
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By Ramon Tomey
Mass protests in China overwhelm communist nation’s censorship system
The ongoing protests in China, which featured fed-up citizens calling for an end to tyrannical rules to curb the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19), have overwhelmed government censors in the country. Censors were known for lightning-fast action against controversial topics that challenge the regime in Beijing, taking them down as soon as the topics trend. Now, they face […]
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