LinkedIn hit with lawsuit after Apple’s iOS 14 beta catches the app reading users’ clipboards without permission LinkedIn is being sued after it’s app was found reading users’ clipboards The suit is from a LinkedIn user in New York and being heard in a San Francisco federal court It also alleges that LinkedIn could read … Read more
TikTok’s rich list: Gordon Ramsay and family ‘earn a staggering £142,000 on the app… while the Beckhams have made over £21,000’ By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 21:49 BST, 10 July 2020 | Updated: 21:54 BST, 10 July 2020 Celebrities and their offspring have been flocking to TikTok to keep them and their fans entertained … Read more
Harry Styles teams up with Calm app and voices a 30 minute sleep story: ‘Sleep and meditation are a huge part of my routine’ By Kellie Chudzinski For Dailymail.com Published: 07:23 BST, 9 July 2020 | Updated: 13:29 BST, 9 July 2020 His voice has sold millions of albums around the globe. And now Harry … Read more
Would you pay for Twitter? Online job posting reveals the social media site is building a subscription service with a payment feature A job listing appeared on Twitter’s career page looking for an engineer The position requires them to help build a subscription platform for the app However, the post nor Twitter is providing any … Read more
A contact tracing app is ‘urgent and important’ and will be able to do jobs that human employees can’t, NHS Test and Trace chiefs said today. Speaking to senior politicians they said the UK still plans to roll out an app but could not put a timescale on it. They said ‘our sense is it … Read more
TikTok says it will stop its app from working in Hong Kong following ‘recent events’ after insisting it does not share users’ information with Beijing TikTok said last night it would be stopping operations in Hong Kong within days Beijing last week imposed a sweeping new national security law on Hong Kong Facebook, Google and … Read more
LinkedIn and Reddit will remove code in their apps that copies users’ clipboard information after being outed by an iOS 14 privacy feature Reddit and LinkedIn are changing code in their apps that copy users’ clipboards The practices was brought to light by an iOS 14 privacy feature Reddit says it used information to auto-suggest … Read more
The Australian Government is facing calls to ban TikTok amid concerns the social media platform poses a national security threat and users’ data may be being shared with China. The popular video app, owned by Chinese company Bytedance, is used by more than 1.6 million Australians. A federal MP has revealed plans to put TikTok … Read more
As we push through the branches I feel excited. I scan the ground. I think this is it!’ I say To look for buried treasure these days you don’t need a map – just an app. Flic Everett has her mind blown by the secret worlds that anyone can find on their doorstep I’m standing … Read more
Facebook is planning to shut down its TikTok copycat Lasso, after the year-and-a-half-old app failed to take off with young users. Lasso, which enables account-holders to post 15-second videos, was billed as the social media giant’s answer to its China-based competitor. But it was bogged down by problems early on, with its developer Brady Voss … Read more