TikTok social network, one of the favorites of young people, is famous among users for the interaction of videos and ‘trends’. However, this application darker and twisted background according to digitization and its power: obtaining confidential personal data.
representative United States Federal Communications CommissionBrendar Carr wrote a text on Twitter addressing Sundar Pichai, CEOs of Apple, Tim Cook and Google, To get them to uninstall the TikTok app “After it posed a national security risk because of the amount of data it has accumulated and the apparent ease with which Beijing (China) has access to that data,” Carr says.
In the letter, TikTok has a a kind of “sheepskin”It hides the intention to obtain sensitive data under the view of broadcasting and interaction between users’ videos.
Thus, the platform’s rules “follow a pattern of behavior. Makes access easier for Beijing users Carr therefore asked Apple and Google to remove the app from their operating systems. “TikTok is not what it seems on the surface,” explains Carr. comments, “At its core, TikTok functions as an advanced surveillance tool that collects vast amounts of personal and sensitive data.”
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The problem is also that the platform’s employees in the United States such data cannot be accessedtherefore they have to leave it in their hands. Chinese workers. This is a possible violation of privacy and national security, The perspective of the current president of the United StatesHe was inside Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.
embers It has already set a deadline for TikTok to find a buyer in the United Statesbut after several meetings with those in charge of Microsoft and Oracle, the government of the American country declared Biden without solving the issue. But the current president’s team introduced new regulatory rules earlier in the year that would mean greater surveillance capacity on apps like TikTok that could pose a risk to the country’s national security.