Only a couple of months after it fined TikTok $620 million, Ireland's data protection regulator is once again seeking to determine if the platform breached the GDPR.

A Manhattan mom whose 15-year-old son died while subway surfing can move forward with a lawsuit against the social media companies that she says helped to popularize the dangerous trend, a state judge has ruled.

TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday. The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow up

From Larry Ellison’s new power consolidation to an app that simply may not be as good, the key variables as a multiyear saga could finally be ending.

ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, is developing a backup plan as it faces a deadline to sell its US operations or risk a

In April, the video sharing platform was hit with a €530 million fine. View on euronews

TikTok has denied a Reuters report claiming it's building a standalone U.S. app with a separate algorithm. TikTok is pushing back against a Reuters report that claims the company is working on a standalone version of its app for the U.S. market, complete with a separate algorithm and data infrastructure.

Launching a U.S.-specific app could be part of the company's broader plan to comply with a 2024 law requiring ByteDance to divest from TikTok.

Ireland's powerful Data Protection Commission has opened a new inquiry into TikTok over the storage of European users' data on servers in China, the regulator said on Thursday. TikTok, owned by China's ByteDance,

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, has plans to move Americans to a US-specific version of CapCut as it looks to meet requirements for a divest-or-ban law.

A now-deleted report by GeekPark claimed ByteDance had approved a sale to an Oracle-led group, retaining a minority stake. However, ByteDance has not confirmed this, and the report has been scrubbed from Chinese platforms.