Delta Airlines has banned TikTok. Delta employees had until Friday afternoon to remove the app from phones, computers, and other smart devices that connect to company systems. The airline is just the latest entity to restrict TikTok’s use in the United States. Concerns about the Chinese app’s use of American data are finally starting to…
As Delta Bans TikTok, Experts Warn About Beijing’s Data Grab
CDC Drops New Bombshell on the Vaccinated|Facts Matter
Tucked away inside Slide number 12 of the CDC’s recent presentation on vaccine efficacy is a truly startling datapoint. It showed that, in the most recent period of time, the efficacy of the vaccine actually turned negative (in terms of hospitalizations). Meaning: if 2 people contracted COVID, and one of them was vaccinated, while the…
[PREMIERING 6/21, 2PM ET] CDC Drops New Bombshell on the Vaccinated|Facts Matter
Tucked away inside Slide number 12 of the CDC’s recent presentation on vaccine efficacy is a truly startling datapoint. It showed that, in the most recent period of time, the efficacy of the vaccine actually turned negative (in terms of hospitalizations). Meaning: if 2 people contracted covid, and one of them was vaccinated, while the…
TikTok to Invest Billions of Dollars in Southeast Asia to Boost E-Commerce Business
JAKARTA—Short video app TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, said on Thursday it would invest billions of dollars in Southeast Asia over the next few years, as it doubles down on the region amid intensifying global scrutiny over its data security. Southeast Asia, a region with a collective population of 630 million—half of them under 30—is…
LIVE NOW: NTD News Today (June 13): Trump to Appear in Miami Court in Historic Federal Case; US Intel Agencies Buy Personal Data: Report
Former President Donald Trump is set to appear at a Miami courthouse on June 13 for a historic federal case. He’s charged with 38 counts—including 31 under the Espionage Act—for his handling of classified documents. Former federal prosecutor Will Scharf said that Trump’s defense will likely focus on the former president’s state of mind and…
NTD News Today (June 13): Trump to Appear in Miami Court in Historic Federal Case; US Intel Agencies Buy Personal Data: Report
Former President Donald Trump is set to appear at a Miami courthouse on June 13 for a historic federal case. He’s charged with 38 counts—including 31 under the Espionage Act—for his handling of classified documents. Former federal prosecutor Will Scharf said that Trump’s defense will likely focus on the former president’s state of mind and…
Former ByteDance Executive Says Chinese Communist Party Tracked Hong Kong Protesters via Data
HONG KONG—A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns the short-video app TikTok, says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong. Yintao Yu, formerly head of engineering for ByteDance in the United…
In the ‘Wild West’ of AI Health Care, These 4 Things Could Go Very Wrong
Artificial intelligence (AI) is making headlines, and the reviews are mixed. Though the United States leads the world in AI investment, Americans remain skeptical. According to a global survey (pdf) by Ipsos, “Only 35 percent of sampled Americans agreed that products and services using AI had more benefits than drawbacks.” Among surveyed countries, America had…
Toyota: Data on More Than 2 Million Vehicles in Japan Were at Risk in Decade-Long Breach
TOKYO—A decade-long data breach in Toyota’s much-touted online service put some information on more than 2 million vehicles at risk, the Japanese automaker said Friday. Spanning from January 2012 to April 2023, the problem with Toyota’s cloud-based Connected service pertains only to vehicles in Japan, said spokesperson Hideaki Homma. The Connected service reminds owners to…
2 Police Forces Rebuked by Watchdog for Recording 200,000 Phone Conversations
Britain’s data watchdog has rebuked two police forces for unlawfully recording 200,000 phone conversations and capturing large amounts of personal data. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) reprimanded Surrey Police and neighbouring and Sussex Police after it emerged they had recorded all incoming and ongoing calls when they rolled out an app on 1,015 staff members’…
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