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Yesterday lawmakers introduced a bill to ban TikTok. But is an outright ban the right course of action, and what is the threat posed by TikTok? The Privacy Dilemma Much of the focus on TikTok has been primarily around user privacy, what data TikTok gathers, and what they do with it. I decided to…

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​Comcast Xfinity customers report their accounts being hacked in widespread attacks that bypass two-factor authentication. These compromised accounts are then used to reset passwords for other service

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ByEmily Baker-White, Forbes Staff. An internal investigation by ByteDance, the parent company of video-sharing platform TikTok, found that employees tracked multiple journalists covering the company, improperly gaining access to their IP addresses and user data in an attempt to identify whether they…

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