TikTok, the massively popular Chinese social-media smartphone app, may be providing personal data from its global user base to the Chinese Communist Party. If that’s not worrying enough, consider the company’s self-serving approach to a live-streamed suicide in Brazil. Tragedy-on-demand As The Intercept recently revealed, hundreds of people watched and commented on a popular young […]
> Read MoreIf you are an American college student, your class attendance is likely being tracked, because, advocates say, it makes you a better student. Yet some student and faculty groups are clamoring for greater oversight of what many see as an emerging “social credit system” that violates their privacy. They say that these tracking programs are […]
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