Tag: zopa
Tech Digest daily round up: TikTok ‘closely controlled by Chinese parent company’
Former TikTok employees say the hugely popular video app is closely controlled by its Chinese parent company ByteDance, raising privacy concerns that the government in Beijing could leverage the app to collect personal information about Americans as part of its sprawling digital surveillance apparatus. Former employees told CNBC in a new report that key decisions and meetings usually ran through China, and…
Zopa gives social lending a Web 2.0 spin
Social lending is a concept that's easy to explain. Instead of borrowing from a bank, you borrow from another person. No, not Big Chris from round the corner who'll break your fingers with a baseball bat if you default on…
