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Trump’s TikTok Tarry — Yet Again, Ban-Can Kicked Down the Road

PAFACA Pause Persists: Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children? ...

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Chinese DeepSeek AI App: FULL of Security Holes Say Researchers

Richi Jennings | February 10, 2025 | AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), AI privacy, application-level encryption, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence News, artificial intellignece, Artificial Stupidity, artificialintelligence, breach of privacy, Bytedance, California Consumer Privacy Act, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), china, china espionage, China Mobile, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, chinese government, Chinese Internet Security, Chinese keyboard app security, Congress, congressional legislation, cybersecurity artificial intelligence, Darin LaHood, Data encryption, Data encryption standards, Data Stolen By China, DeepSeek, DeepSeek AI, encryption, Josh Gottheimer, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, llm security, No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Unencrypted Data, US Congress

Xi knows if you’ve been bad or good: iPhone app sends unencrypted data to China—and Android app appears even worse ...

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Trump U-Turn: TikTok’s On-Again/Off-Again U.S. Ban

Not For You: “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” shouldn’t be enforced, orders President Trump ...

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“Oh, won’t somebody please think of the children?”

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs

Richi Jennings | October 9, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...

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TikTok Abuses Kids, say DoJ and FTC

Richi Jennings | August 5, 2024 | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?

For You Plague: U.S. Justice Dept. and Federal Trade Commission file lawsuit, alleging TikTok broke the COPPA law, plus a previous injunction ...

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TikTok Ban — ByteDance Sues US to Kill Bill

Richi Jennings | May 8, 2024 | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban

PAFACA SueTok: U.S. Courts “likely” to rule whether new law is constitutional—or even practical ...

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TikTok ‘Ban’ — ByteDance CEO and EFF are BFFs

Richi Jennings | March 18, 2024 | Bytedance, china, chinese government, EFF, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Shou Zi Chew, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban

7521 momentum builds: Shou Zi Chew plays for time, while Electronic Frontier Foundation says TikTok-kill bill is DOA ...

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TikTok Ban Incoming — but ByteDance Fights Back

Richi Jennings | March 8, 2024 | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, , spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban

Hilltop BillTok: ByteDance mobilizing addicted user base, as U.S. TikTok ban steamrolls through Capitol Hill after unanimous committee vote ...

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TikTok Ban Banned — Montana Loses in US Court

Richi Jennings | December 1, 2023 | Bytedance, china, chinese government, Donald Molloy, Montana, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, spyware, TikTok

For you plague, still: States can’t just ban apps, says federal judge ...

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Knives Out for TikTok as Journo Reveals her Spy Story

Richi Jennings | May 8, 2023 | Bytedance, Cristina Criddle, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, spyware, TikTok

Clock Ticking for U.S. Ban: FT’s Cristina Criddle claims ByteDance spied on her—because she wrote damaging stories about TikTok ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On