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If social media companies are restricted in how they collect, use and share Australians’ data, we can take significant steps toward protecting everyone from foreign interference.
Banning TikTok could unintentionally pose a cybersecurity risk.
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Legislation meant to improve cybersecurity could be difficult to implement and might create incentives for riskier digital behavior.
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We need more scrutiny of TikTok as Indonesia gears up for general and presidential elections next year.
Attention isn’t a single mechanism, but rather the result of a number of different mechanisms across various areas of the brain.
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With most social media users logging in at least once a day, and one-third of teens using these apps almost constantly, it raises the issue of whether social media is hurting our attention abilities.
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We no longer share our musical interests with just our family, friends or colleagues. We now share it with people we barely know from the internet.
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The platform has already faced bans in a number of other countries – most of them citing privacy and surveillance concerns.
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Pranking your intimate partner to gain clout online is not as innocent as it might seem.
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You might have seen teachers on TikTok dancing to the latest viral song with their students. Or dressing up to show how many different jobs they do in a given day.
Chinese shoppers are increasingly using a video app when they need to complain.
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Chinese shoppers find a TikTok-style app is helpful for complaining.
Is a wildly popular social media app a threat to U.S. citizens?
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What data privacy risk does TikTok pose, and what could the Chinese government do with data it collects? And is it even possible to ban an app?
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My research reiterates the roles of TikTok in fostering hate speech in elections
Experts have been considering whether TikTok is worse in terms of privacy or security than other, US-based apps.
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TikTok has been banned from UK government devices, but it’s easy for all social media platforms to harvest your data.
Rema performing in the US. His hit Calm Down has gone viral - in part thanks to a choreographer named Loïc Reyel.
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The five Iranian teenagers were arrested and forced to apologise – but the dance challenge continues to go viral.
TikTok has been banned on government employees’ devices in the EU and US.
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The evidence on whether TikTok poses a risk to users’ privacy and security.
Influencers have started filming themselves shopping for supplies, prepping food, refilling containers and organizing their pantries.
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Maybe you can’t have a designer kitchen. But you can still beautify your bulk food storage.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to ban TikTok on all federal government-issued devices follows similar government bans in the United States at the federal and state levels.
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NDP leader Jagmeet Singh has deactivated his TikTok profile in a move that will undermine his party’s attempts to engage with young voters through social media.
Going online often involves surrendering some privacy, and many people are becoming resigned to the fact that their data will be collected and used without their explicit consent.
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Many people have become resigned to the fact that tech companies collect our private data. But policymakers must do more to limit the amount of personal information corporations can collect.
‘Lucky girl syndrome’ is similar to the ‘law of attraction’.
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‘Lucky girl syndrome’ focuses on using positive affirmations to achieve material benefit.
We interviewed 11- to 17-year-olds and they told us gambling advertising is so pervasive in their lives, it’s become normalised.
Jake Paul and Tommy Fury promoting their future fight.
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We examined the pre-match fight on social media to compare how each fighter’s profile brand performed worldwide.