Darren Jones: Keir Starmer moves rising star to Labour’s shadow treasury team September 4, 2023 Labour MP Darren Jones has been appointed shadow chief secretary to the treasury, in Sir Keir Starmer’s reshuffle of his top team. Jones made headlines and viral TikToks as he clashed with Royal Mail, Amazon and P&O bosses in his role as business and trade select committee (BTC) chairman. He will now serve alongside shadow [...]
Explainer: when online fads take a dark turn, from planking to TikTok August 15, 2023 Police boss sees social media challenges as 'societal breakdown'.
Warner Music signs deal with Tiktok to ‘harness’ its viral social media power July 19, 2023 Warner Music Group has inked a multi-year licensing deal with Tiktok to help drive up its revenues and increase marketing opportunities. While specific financial details remain undisclosed, Warner said the venture aims to “harness” the viral media power of the short-video app to bolster revenues and marketing opportunities. Both companies have dubbed the new partnership, [...]
China is main ‘threat’ to economic security – and UK blocked EIGHT Beijing takeover bids in last year July 11, 2023 China is the biggest “state-based threat” to the UK’s economic security, deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden has said. Cabinet Office figures have revealed the government intervened in eight attempts by Chinese buyers to takeover UK firms due to national security fears in the last year. Dowden told the BBC Chinese deals posed risks due to [...]
Elf Bar warned by advertising watchdog after banning Tiktok vape promotions May 10, 2023 Two Tiktok posts by influencers promoting vapes have been banned for breaking rules prohibiting e-cigarette advertising on social media. The first post from the account @Panaxhe_ shows a young man selecting a blueberry-flavoured Elf Bar for breakfast from a fridge full of the brightly-coloured devices before returning later for a kiwi passion fruit-flavoured vape for lunch. The second showed former Gogglebox [...]
TikTok fined nearly £13m for accessing data of 1.4 million children without parents’ consent April 4, 2023 TikTok has been fined £12.7m for using children’s personal data without parental consent, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has announced. The ICO said the social media giant allowed up to 1.4 million children under the age of 13 to use the app in 2020, breaching its own rules, and used their personal data without gaining [...]
Australia follows UK, US, Canada and New Zealand in banning TikTok from government devices April 4, 2023 Australia has become the last of the Five Eyes security partners to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from its federal government’s devices. Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Tuesday that based on intelligence and security agencies’ advice, that ban would come into effect “as soon as practicable”. The so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing [...]
Lord Mandelson’s firm advising Tiktok in UK as it looks to avoid further bans April 2, 2023 A public affairs firm set up by Lord Mandelson is advising Chinese-owned Tiktok, which faces bans by multiple governments over spying fears. Global Counsel, which Mandelson founded in 2016, is helping Tiktok “frame their messaging” to assuage concerns that it would pass on data to Chinese state intelligence agencies if asked, according to a report [...]
City Hall bans TikTok app despite Sadiq Khan’s 47,000 followers March 26, 2023 TikTok has been banned on London City Hall devices amid ongoing security concerns. Staff will no longer be allowed to have the video sharing app on their official devices as part of the latest ban to hit the Chinese-owned firm over data privacy fears. Greater London Authority (GLA) officials said the rule was implemented as [...]
TikTok blocked on London City Hall devices in latest ban on Chinese-owned app March 25, 2023 London City Hall staff will no longer have TikTok on their devices in the latest ban amid security concerns over the social media app.