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Data access in China, misinformation… Regulators worried about the TikTok application

2022-11-23T17:44:10.052Z


In Europe and the United States, the use of data collected by this Chinese social network raises questions relating to national security.


In the name of protecting national security, TikTok had come close to being banned on American soil in 2020, then the forced sale of its local activities to Oracle and WalMart.

Two years later, former President Donald Trump's fight against this Chinese application is progressing slowly, despite multiple warnings about the alleged dangers of the service.

“This is one of the few issues on which Donald Trump may have been right

,” acknowledged in the

Washington Post

the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Democrat Mark Werner.

Because TikTok can not get rid of a suspicion: to be the false nose of the Chinese Communist Party.

An investigation launched in 2021 by the Biden Administration to gauge the risks presented by TikTok for the data security of American citizens has not yet released its conclusions.

The Commerce Department has still not unveiled its strategy, driven by the White House earlier this year, to strengthen control of…

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Source: lefigaro

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