Tiktok India

TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer addresses India employees, says it complies with 'all data privacy and security requirements under Indian law'

TikTok is among the 59 Chinese apps that were banned by the Indian government on Monday.

TikTok is a data collection service masquerading as a social network, claims researcher

Research has found that TikTok was collecting information on users' phone hardware, apps, network-related information, among various other things.

TikTok removed from Play Store, App Store, company says it's in process of complying with govt order

TikTok says that it continues to comply with all data privacy and security requirements under the Indian law.

India bans 59 chinese apps: TikTok's runaway success in India is a story best understood through the rise of the platform's many stars

To study the popularity of TikTok in India is to study an emergent Indian class, a group of individuals for whom the platform is a space inclusive of all kinds of sensibilities and contradictions.

TikTok becomes the most downloaded social media app in India during lockdown

AajTak and Zoom app have also reportedly become one of the most downloaded apps these days.

TikTok to ban harm-causing 'misleading information' on its platform; no mention of how it will identify such content

The guidelines did not explain how TikTok would determine what constitutes “misleading” content and appeared to leave leeway for interpretation in enforcement decisions.

TikTok's massive growth has Google, Facebook and rest of Silicon Valley worried

A government intervention would probably be welcome news to TikTok’s competitors, who have been working from their usual crush-the-upstart playbook.

TikTok under the scanner again, as government asks for clarity on unlawful content

The government has also told TikTok users not to host or circulate any grossly harmful content on the app.

TikTok user-spend reaches $10.8 million in June 2019 with a 588 percent growth from last year

Chinese Tiktok users accounted for 69 percent of in-app revenue last month, up from 30 percent in June 2018.

TikTok parent ByteDance to setup international data center in India: Report

The TikTok international data center will take 6-18 months to set up in India, said ByteDance.