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by Nicholas Ballasy   The U.S. Customs and Border Protection smartphone app known as “CBP One” is “facilitating illegal immigration” and has become a “boon for alien smugglers” as migrant encounters surge at the border, according to an…

by Ben Whedon   Social media platform Twitter warned rival Meta that intended to protect its intellectual property rights following the latter’s debut of a Threads, a Twitter competitor that is linked to Meta’s other platforms. Twitter…

by Robert Romano   The Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology Act (RESTRICT Act), S.686, contains language that could be used to shut down any website or app with more than 1…

As TikTok faces a possible ban based on perceived national security risks from its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance, the Chinese owner is promoting a new app called Lemon8, according to The…

by Jason Cohen   The top four downloaded applications in the past 30 days in the U.S. Apple App Store and Google Play Store are owned by Chinese-tied companies, according to data from Apptopia analyzed by Axios. While these…

Google announced Tuesday it has suspended the Chinese shopping app Pinduoduo from its app store due to malware concerns, according to The Associated Press. “Google Play Protect enforcement has been…

The U.S. Treasury Department demanded TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance divest from the app in order to prevent a ban on the platform in the U.S., a company spokeswoman confirmed to the Daily Caller…

America’s top cyber chief dug his heels in on opposition to TikTok during a congressional hearing Tuesday over the app’s data collection features and potential for use in Chinese influence operations. The White House and Congress…

Twitter’s revenue dropped by nearly 40% in December after advertisers fled in the aftermath of CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of the platform, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the situation. Twitter…

by Brett Rowland   A U.S. Senator has called on the nation’s top tech companies to break up with the popular short-form video service TikTok. U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, D-Colorado, asked Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet and Google CEO…