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A former senior employee at TikTok said he was ordered to send American user data to its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, contradicting TikTok’s public claims of operating independently from China, according to a Fortune report published Monday.
Google said Friday it would remove links to California news sites from its search results for some of its users, as it pushes back against a pending bill that would require the Silicon Valley technology company to pay publishers. The online search giant said the bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would upend its business model. The bill, if signed into law, would require companies including Google to fork over a "journalism usage fee" when they sell ads next to news...
TikTok has denied a report that general counsel Erich Andersen announced in an email he would be stepping down Source
The Securities and Exchange Commission is illegally collecting data from American citizens who invest in the stock market, according to a lawsuit, per the New York Post.The report noted that New Civil Liberties Alliance filed the lawsuit on Tuesday against the SEC. The NCLA claimed that the agency, through its "Consolidated Audit Trail" program, is actively gathering mass amounts of personally identifiable data. The SEC is allegedly forcing brokers, exchanges, and clearing agencies to send...
Under scrutiny, TikTok officials strongly maintained it mostly cut ties with owner. Former employees now say the company was not in fact independent of Beijing. The former TikTok staff said they were asked to send US user data to ByteDance. READ MORE:
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Legislation forcing ByteDance to sell TikTok or face a ban in the US has passed the House and is headed for a vote in the Senate Source
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Congressman Patrick McHenry says bitcoin is unstoppable and every regime that’s tried to shut it down has failed. He emphasized that the U.S. must become a leader in digital assets, noting that two congressional bills offer a path toward clear regulations. Two Pieces of Legislation Could Provide Greater Clarity in Digital Assets Congressman Patrick McHenry […]
The United States, United Kingdom, and Germany rank among the top countries holding cryptocurrencies at the government level, according to data from Arkham Intelligence. The crypto analytic firm’s onchain analysis shows that the U.S. government holds 212,847 bitcoins while El Salvador has been purchasing one bitcoin daily as announced by its president. Top Government Holders […]