On 24 July, the European Commission issued preliminary findings that the TikTok platform breached the Digital Services Act by leaving minors’ accounts open to adults, the latest escalation in a probe that has shadowed the app since 2024. The finding is narrow but pointed. Investigators concluded that TikTok’s default settings failed to keep children’s profiles private in practice, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok owner ByteDance €530 million ($602 million) for breaching the European Union's privacy laws. The regulator said TikTok sent European [...]
Processing 200,000 tokens through a large language model is expensive and slow: the longer the context, the faster the costs spiral. Researchers at Tsinghua University and Z.ai have built a technique [...]
The data processing agreement (DPA) — the bedrock contract companies use to evaluate how vendors handle personal data — can no longer be trusted at face value. That is the central, and arguably mo [...]
Streams on TikTok Live were used to exploit children, according to a newly unredacted lawsuit filed by Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. The lawsuit says that TikTok was not only aware that TikTok Liv [...]