‘Everybody is worried’: Why governments are banning TikTok from devices

Canada has banned TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices due to security concerns.

It follows similar actions in the US, where more than half of states and Congress have banned TikTok from government devices, and the European Union, which has temporarily banned TikTok from phones.

Professor of digital social media at the University of Southern California, Karen North, says “everybody is worried about the infiltration of TikTok”.

“TikTok is a giant data collection machine … should the data collection machine be on the phones of people who have secure and potentially important confidential information on their phones, or even in the networks they’re connecting to?

Professor North says she doesn’t use TikTok herself, due to the security risk it poses.

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