Indonesia suspends TikTok registration over data sharing failures, ministry says

Indonesia said it has suspended TikTok‘s registration status as an electronic system provider after it failed to hand over all data relating to the use of its live stream feature, though the social media app was still accessible to users on Friday.

Alexander Sabar, an official at Indonesia’s communications and digital ministry, said in a statement some accounts with ties to online gambling activities used TikTok’s live stream feature during recent national protests and monetised it.

Protests rocked the world’s third-largest democracy over exorbitant…