TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
TikTok plans to update its privacy policy on December 2 to confirm that its staff outside of Europe, including in China, can access the data of European users  —  Privacy policy update confirms data of continent’s users available to range of TikTok bases including in Brazil, Israel and US

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Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Survey of 8,000 young people in nine European countries finds 34% have pirated content, 27% reported trolling someone, 22% reported inciting violence, and more  —  EU-funded survey of people aged 16-19 finds one in four have trolled someone – while UK least ‘cyberdeviant’ of nine countries

Twitter’s head of safety and integrity says it has not changed content policies but had been subject to “an organized effort to make people think we have” (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest (Dan Milmo/The Guardian)

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In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest  —  Inquest told 14-year-old took her own life while suffering from depression and had interacted with harmful social media content

WhatsApp rolls out a directory for companies on its Business Platform in Brazil, the UK, Indonesia, Mexico, and Colombia, following a pilot in São Paulo (Jon Porter/The Verge)

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Brazil orders Apple to stop selling iPhones without a charger in the country and fines the company ~$2.38M, citing “deliberate” discrimination against consumers (Peter Frontini/Reuters)

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Brazil orders Apple to stop selling iPhones without a charger in the country and fines the company ~$2.38M, citing “deliberate” discrimination against consumers  —  Brazil’s government on Tuesday ordered Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to stop selling iPhones without a battery charger in the country …