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DUNCAN McLEOD: Western paranoia turns TikTok into a bogeyman
Western governments are moving to ban their civil servants from using the Chinese-developed app amid espionage fears
09 March 2023 - 05:00
Governments in the Western world are moving to ban their civil servants from using Chinese-developed app TikTok. They’re worried, they say, that the Chinese government could use the social media platform for espionage.
The US government is, not surprisingly, leading the charge. But Canada and the EU have recently joined in seeking to restrict the app on work devices...
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