Increasing concerns are being raised over TikTok.
on government devices — over concerns about Chinese data gathering.that would ban the popular video platform from devices issued by federal agencies.
“The main concern here with TikTok from a national security perspective is what the Chinese government can do with this information if they got hold of it all the data on our citizens and how they could potentially use the platform to interfere in our elections through propaganda,” said Marc Berkman, the CEO of the Organization for Social Media Safety.
“Obviously, the Chinese government has different incentives than for-profit companies in democratic countries around the world,” Berkman said. “So there is a security difference in risk level here.”
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