Banning Tik Tok

 

This is from an article that argues to ban Tik Tok, rather than allow Microsoft to pursue its acquisition (frank)

"That ability for the Chinese government to access hundreds of millions of young U.S. users’ personal data alone makes TikTok banworthy. The U.S.-China relationship is growing increasingly frosty, and China will seek advantages wherever it can, including in the realm of data collection. If China can justify banning Facebook and Google over U.S. security concerns, then certainly our country has the right to ban the Chinese-owned TikTok from our shores.

"Just because a company such as TikTok could potentially be transferred to Microsoft, and therefore American ownership, does not mean that it is suddenly off the hook. We will not, likely ever, have true clarity on whether TikTok’s promised “divestiture” of data from all of its Chinese operations would ever happen.

"As far as U.S. security analysts are concerned, TikTok is already a compromised company, with many structural and security deficiencies, including its high rate of data transference to its home base in China."

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