Calls in the US for a ban on TikTok have reignited the global debate about its cybersecurity risks.
Donald Trump's 2020 executive order alleged TikTok's data collection could potentially allow China totrack the locations of federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionageSo far, evidence points to this being only a theoretical risk - but fears are stoked by a vague piece of Chinese law passed in 2017.
The company also says it is in the process of creating data stores around the world, including in Ireland where UK user data is now processed.TikTok's spokeswoman said: "Our Community Guidelines prohibit misinformation that could cause harm to our community or the larger public, which includes engaging in co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour."
All social networks are heavily censored in China with an army of internet police deleting content which criticises the government or excites political unrest.The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, shares the same format and basic engineering code Researchers at Citizen Lab carried out a comparison of TikTok and Douyin. They concluded that TikTok does not employ the same political censorship.Georgia Institute of Technology analysts also searched for topics such as the independence of Taiwan or jokes about Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, and concluded: "Videos in all of these categories can easily be found on TikTok. Many are popular and widely shared.
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