Month: March 2023
TikTok “poses security issues” to Romanians
The European Commission has banned its staff from using TikTok, citing concerns about the security and data collection practices of the app owned by Chinese company ByteDance. Staff have been ordered to delete the app from their mobile phones and work devices, including personal devices that use work apps. The authorities in Romania have started
Expulsion of Germany diplomats from Iran
Iran announced Wednesday that it was declaring two German diplomats based in Tehran as persona non grata in a tit-for-tat move. The Iranian move appears to have come in response to Germany declaring two Iranian diplomats in Berlin as persona non grata. The development comes against a backdrop of rising tensions between Iran and Europe.
Türkiye to hold elections in May despite Earthquakes
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that his government plans to hold the presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14, as the country is still recovering from two devastating earthquakes that struck a large swath of its southern region in early February. The Turkish president had earlier said that the elections were to
Iran to set trade center in South Africa
The Trade Promotion Organization of Iran intends to establish a trade center in South Africa in order to facilitate trade in the country’s market and to introduce the production and export capabilities of Iranian companies to their South African counterparts. Back in August 2022, Director-General of TPO’s Africa Office Mohammad-Sadeq Qanadzadeh said TPO was planning
YouTube breach on data privacy
YouTube which is is owned by the US tech giant Alphabet, which is also the parent company of Google has been accused of collecting the viewing data of children aged under 13.In 2019, YouTube was fined $170m (£139m) by a US regulator for violating children’s privacy laws. This followed a similar accusation that it was
Twitter outage affected tweets
Thousands of people around the world were unable to use Twitter for two hours on Wednesday after the social network suffered another outage. There have been several intermittent outages in recent months. During a temporary outage in early February some users were told they were over the daily limit for sending tweets. The site’s search
Bakhmut is on the verge of collapse
For more than six months, Bakhmut has been under a near-constant siege after Russian troops and Wagner Group mercenaries began shelling the city after the fall of Popasna in May 2022 . Full-scale assaults on Bakhmut from Vladimir Putin’s vaunted Wanger Group began in August but the mercenaries made little progress and were unable to
cracking down on prominent business individuals in China
Even though the international community views enforced disappearance as a type of human rights violation, some analysts say the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) views it as “standard practice.” The disappearance of Chinese banker Bao Fan has renewed concerns about Beijing’s crackdown on entrepreneurs. Experts say the trend will cause investors to lose confidence in China.
TikTok to be banned in Europe on work devices
The West is particularly concerned about what access China has to sensitive user data around the world, but TikTok strenuously denies Beijing has any control or access. In November, TikTok admitted some staff in China can access the data of European users. On the same day, Canada’s government banned TikTok from all phones and other