For unknown reasons, that protection is globally disabled in the app, NowSecure said. What’s more, the data is sent to servers that are controlled by ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok.

TikTok is no longer available in the United States —at least for now. But it’s not the only ByteDance-owned app that’s ...

The chatbot app from artificial intelligence (AI) sensation DeepSeek has overtaken Doubao, the equivalent product from TikTok ...

Elon Musk has no interest in purchasing TikTok’s American business from Chinese company ByteDance according to new public comments. In a recently released video interview at the WELT Economic ...

The company’s OmniHuman-1 multimodal model can create vivid videos of people speaking, singing, and moving with a quality “significantly outperforming existing audio-conditioned human video ...

found that using the app could result in the insecure transmission of sensitive data, which could be read by third-party companies such as ByteDance, and warned companies and institutions to ...

Data sent entirely in the clear occurs during the initial registration of the app, including: organization id the version of the software development kit used to create the app user OS version ...

The legislation addressed concerns that the app and its Chinese-owned parent company ByteDance posed a serious threat to national security. To stay in business in the U.S., the bill required ...

By Sapna Maheshwari TikTok is not the only app owned by the Chinese internet giant ByteDance that is flickering back to life. CapCut, a popular video-editing app, came back online in the United ...

This distrust is fueled by memories of Trump’s last year in office, when he put China on its heels by abruptly attempting to shut down the app. ByteDance, too, has few incentives to participate ...