Data Privacy

TikTok is now in U.S. hands. Here’s what the app wants to know about you.

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[ad_1] TikTok — now in U.S. hands after the social media service split from China-based ByteDance earlier this year — is raising concerns among some users about its new privacy policy, prompting questions about the scope of its data collection. TikTok on Jan. 22 confirmed that a new U.S.-based entity was in control of the app, … Read more

Erasing personal data from the devices you discard is a booming business

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[ad_1] Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images “Our first concern is always data, data, data, data,” said Sean Magann, chief commercial officer for Sims Lifecycle Services. Magann was emphasizing a primary focus of Sims and other IT asset disposition, or ITAD, providers, whose business is managing end-of-life, used and discarded IT equipment, such as smartphones, … Read more