Tiptop Representative News Today

hello and welcome. new zealands government has become the latest to ban tiktok on devices with access to its parliamentary network, due to security concerns. this is because of fears that the chinese—owned app passes information about users to the chinese government, something the owners, bytedance, deny. earlier on thursday, the uk followed the united states, and the european commission, in banning the app from sensitive government devices. china says its a politically motivated dec...

Uses�* personal information can be passed on to the chinese government —— bytedance. but bytedance and tiktok deny this, saying there is nowhere the chinese government can get its hands on the data, but this is why governments are so concerned, it is because the extent of data that tiktok has on its users is massive. it has information on your location, on yourfriends, it information on your location, on your friends, it allows itself to collect biometric data. it calls those faceprints an...