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TikTok Shop's First Developer Summit!
For two days, developers came together at the first TikTok Shop Developer Summit to celebrate Innovation Challenge winners and learn how to build for TikTok Shop.
Community
4 Reasons to Upgrade to TikTok OpenSDK on GitHub
Check out our top reasons why you should upgrade your app to the TikTok OpenSDK.
Developer products
Introducing TikTok's Data Portability API
TikTok's newly-released Data Portability API allows users in the European Economic Area to export their data between services.
Developer products
TikTok's Privacy Innovation 2024 Roadmap
We're excited to share our 2024 Privacy Innovation roadmap, packed with innovative advancements aimed at elevating privacy standards and safeguarding user data.
Privacy
Research
Monitoring Your Assets in the Face of Emerging Cloud-Squatting Attacks
In this post we talk about mitigating an emerging attack against cloud assets called Cloud-Squatting. We explain the root causes and the mitigating system design in detail.
Security
TikTok Shop Developer Summit 2024
Learn to build apps for TikTok Shop! Join the TikTok Shop team on March 28th and 29th for our first TikTok Shop Developer Summit. Plus, register early for a chance to attend in-person at our San Jose campus.
Community
Evaluating anonymity limitations with AnonPSI
Learn about our newly published research paper on AnonPSI, and anonymity framework for Private Set Intersection (PSI).
Research
Privacy
Bulk Suppressions: A new ESLint feature for large codebases
A TikTok engineer adds a new feature in ESLint to simplify the introduction of new style rules to large, preexisting code bases.
Open source
Cobuilds: A shortcut for distributed builds with Rush.js
Read about an engineer's journey and our open source contribution to accelerate distributed build times for monorepos using Rush.
Open source
PETAce in Action: Enhancing privacy during Friends Matching in TikTok
Dive into our latest application of PETAce to protect privacy when users authorize access to phone contacts for finding friends in TikTok.
Tech @ TikTok
Research
Privacy
PETAce: Using Applied Cryptography to Enhance Privacy
Learn about our Privacy Innovation Lab's project called PETAce, a comprehensive framework for enhancing privacy with applied cryptography.
Open source
Research
Privacy
Introducing our new Blog!
We're thrilled to announce the launch of our brand new Blog! We will use this space to share insights into our developer products and showcase stories from the innovative tech teams that power TikTok.
Tech @ TikTok
Developer products
Community
Highlights from TikTok's Hackathon Challenge 2023
TikTok held its first-ever Hackathon Challenge for students in Singapore. We received many inspiring and creative submissions from 180 participating teams! Read about the challenge, winners, and highlights.
Community
Direct Post: How creative partners enabled effortless sharing to TikTok
Creators can now publish videos directly to TikTok from third-party platforms by Adobe and a range of partners. See how these developers utilized our Content Posting API to inspire creativity in the TikTok community.
Developer products
PrivacyGo: TikTok’s initiative in synergistic privacy-enhancing technologies
Learn about our Privacy Innovation Lab's contribution to privacy protection using synergistic fusion of privacy-enhancing technologies.
Tech @ TikTok
Open source
Privacy
Introducing the TikTok Open SDK on GitHub
Explore the source code or integrate with the SDK to build mobile authentication and sharing experiences for iOS and Android.
Developer products
Open source