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BBC urges staff to ditch TikTok over data fears
BBC urges staff to ditch TikTok over data fears
Business and Economy
by  AFP

The BBC said Monday that it had told staff to delete Chinese-owned video app TikTok unless it was needed for business reasons, with Western institutions increasingly taking a harder stance over data collection fears. Western authorities have been taking an increasingly firm approach to the app, owned by the firm ByteDance, citing fears that user data could be used or abused by Chinese officials.

N.Ireland unionists oppose key part of Brexit trade deal
N.Ireland unionists oppose key part of Brexit trade deal
Business and Economy
by  AFP

Northern Ireland's largest pro-UK party said Monday they oppose a crucial part of a new post-Brexit trade pact for the British province agreed by London and the European Union. Wrangling over post-Brexit trade soured relations between London and Brussels and unsettled Northern Ireland, nearly 25 years on from a peace deal that ended three decades of armed conflict.