TikTok says Australian users' data won't be shared with foreign power
by Josh Taylor from Technology | The Guardian on (#55TMS)
Vow comes despite app's own transparency reports revealing that it complies with requests
As TikTok claims it would never hand over user information on Australian users to foreign governments, the company's own transparency reporting reveals hundreds of instances where user data has been handed over to governments.
The short video app popular with a younger demographic and used by some 1 billion people worldwide has been the subject of intense scrutiny over concerns its Beijing-based company ByteDance could be handing over data about its users to the Chinese government.
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