"Do we really want to emulate Chinese speech bans?" US Republican Senator Rand Paul said responding to calls for unanimous consent for a TikTok ban bill

China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the US has made a presumption of guilt against TikTok without presenting evidence that the popular app threatens its national security

The boss of the Chinese video-sharing app goes before a Washington committee on Thursday with the US pushing to ban it over security fears

Fintech firm Riskified is moving $500 million out of the country after news that business leaders shifted $4 billion abroad amid worry over the Netanyahu regime's contentious judicial reforms

Huawei emerged after three years of Covid restrictions with a grand return to the global stage, Nikkei said

"We'll take the advice of our national security agencies. That hasn't been the advice to date," Treasurer Jim Chalmers said

India accounted for almost half of the world's internet shutdowns last year, while the Russian military also cut online services in Ukraine, internet watchdog group Access Now said

The US and Canada have ramped up efforts to get TikTok off government phones and devices; US agencies were given 30 days to ensure state workers' phones do not have the Chinese app on them

Huawei expanded its footprint at the Mobile World Congress despite escalating tensions between the US and China over TikTok, spy balloons and computers chips, US News said

Current cyber security rules, government policies and regulations "are simply not at the level that we need them to be," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said

The European Commission has ordered its 32,000 staff and employees to remove the TikTok app from their phones and corporate devices to "protect data and increase cybersecurity"

Chinese authorities have urged state-owned firms to stop using the four biggest global accounting firms over concerns about data security