Chicago — “The TikTok app is a malicious and menacing threat …” An Indiana Attorney General announced on December 6th, according to an article by CNN.
Indiana’s lawsuit against TikTok is just the latest amongst other places in the United States, including Texas, Maryland and South Dakota. However, don’t worry, because this will for sure not affect you, unless you’re a government employee. The ban is only for government-issued devices.
The reason these states’ governments don’t want TikTok on their devices is because of it: “gaining access to critical U.S. information and infrastructure,” according to the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott. There’s been a significant amount of evidence that points to the China-based app gaining access to information data through the app and selling it to the Chinese government. One piece of evidence that could reveal this is TikTok’s European privacy policy changing to allow individuals outside of Europe to see their information.
Why should you care about what they do with private information? It’s clearly an overreach of government and corporation power, and especially dangerous if it’s information from government employees.
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