TikTok is making it a lot easier for its creators to use AI. TikTok AI Alive, a feature the app launched on Tuesday, helps users turn static photos into “captivating, short-form videos enhanced with movement, atmospheric and creative effects” when they use the TikTok Story Camera. “We all know a photo can say a thousand … Read more
May 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Social Media Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Friday fined popular video-sharing platform TikTok €530 million ($601 million) for infringing data protection regulations in the region by transferring European users’ data to China. “TikTok infringed the GDPR regarding its transfers of EEA [European Economic Area] User Data to China … Read more
In 2024, amidst social unrest, the French government banned TikTok in Kanaky-New Caledonia. In April 2025, the Council of State reviewed the ban. This post examines the implications of the judgment through the lens of the legal doctrine on emergency powers – particularly its impact on the separation of powers – and situates it within … Read more
TikTok Shop, a major e-commerce platform connecting Chinese vendors with overseas consumers, has flagged US tariff risks to its merchants, as well as promoting European sites, after US President Donald Trump tripled tariffs on small parcels exported from mainland China and Hong Kong, which were previously exempt from duties. The ByteDance-owned platform has informed merchants … Read more
President Donald Trump’s plans to enable a US acquisition of TikTok have been thwarted by Trump’s plans to tariff the shit out of China. According to The Verge, the new global tariffs imposed on China and dozens of other nations “seemingly torpedoed” plans for candidates — mostly like Oracle — to take over the ByteDance-owned app. … Read more