tiktok!!
Millions of teenagers, not to mention cabinet ministers, love to post on the social media app TikTok. But today the British government said it would ban TikTok from government phones over fears that there could be a risk to ‘sensitive data’.
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Many Western governments are concerned that the Chinese government could try to access users’ data from the app.
The company said the move, which brings the UK in line with the US and the European Commission, was being driven by wider geopolitics.
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“ALL” social media outlets should be barred from ALL officially supplied devices.
A Chinese gentleman handed me a free phone .. no TikTok on it .. thank God .. I also work as contractor for the gov .. I feel safe and I’m safe 🤣
They literally admit in the terms of service they look at contacts, keystrokes, personal files etc.
It should be banned unless Byte Dance (tiktoks company) releases the source code and have a western company handle data collection that are compliant with UK/EU/US laws as much as I disagree with data collection as a advocate for FOSS
What about YouTube, Facebook and twitter ah wait they are American companies and would never would do such a thing like that
I think they should also be looking very closely at BYD cars also. Online firmware updates and front and rear cameras. Just imagine if this was feeding video back to China under the guise of a firmware update and was owned by a military base employee or other sensitive government site.
Best news I’ve heard all week
I feel so bad for the UK 🇬🇧 people right now.
We must protect our government from tiktok. It’s too late for the public
Can someone tell please what the “sensitive government data” involves?
Wow, the Chinese Government must be gutted that they’re not going to see Reece-Mogg in a leotard!
The ban should be for all devices,not just government ones. Bytedance lies saying they don’t share info with the CCP,they don’t have a choice not to.
Oh god, now we’re gonna have to search out other ways of getting our attention seeking needs met. Damn inconvenient!
This is like something you would expect at a high school not the friggin building where our country is governed from fs !
MPs using tiktok is the stupidest thing ever.
This does bring tears…
Finally NO MORE CRINGE LETS GOOO
IM SICK OF THIS!
WE CAN LIVE IN PEACE
I remember when Trump tried to ban Tik Tok in the USA but Biden revoked the Executive Order.
What are they afraid of – That China will learn our best teenagers dance moves and beat us in a dance-off? I don’t even use TikTok but this just seems like fear mongering over Chy-na
A week after getting my new tablet I said to my friend “I’d love sweet and sour chicken” and to my surprise 30mins later a delivery was made to my house from my local Chinese restaurant. This may not be true.
There should be no social media apps no work phones. Obviously WhatsApp is considered but is critically encrypted for messaging so until I learn otherwise I don’t see why the others were ever allowed.
The full US ban is hypocritical given what Facebook did with Cambridge Analytical
TikTok headquarters will just release a totally different named app and boom, no longer banned.