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Australia will ban tiktok on government devices despite claims by chinese officials that the application is safe to use.
Is any application on a mobile device really safe to use? What personal data do they collect? Where do they send it? Why don't mobile devices come with the firewall enabled?
Australia's top spy agency has added to growing concerns about a popular social media app, and its collection of users' personal data. State governments across the nation are issuing TikTok bans on official work devices as concerns about data safety increase worldwide.
The app's Australian general manager Lee Hunter recently told The Project that users should feel "safe" on TikTok, and claimed China had no way of accessing data – despite the site's parent company operating out of China.
However, national intelligence organisation Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) recently released advice about the app, warning the general public not to use it on a device that can access other information.
"Do not use it on a phone that can access any official information, for example, any workplace communication (email clients, MS Teams)," the ASD warned in advice shared by the Tasmanian government.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by corey on Tuesday April 11, @09:12PM
This isn’ta master/underling arrangement you portray. Yeah so China are more powerful in defence and economy. But China are just as dependent on Australia’s exports. They don’t control Australia like some make out. This was in the news only today:
China vows to ‘re-establish trust’ with Australia
Daniel Hurst
Daniel Hurst
The Chinese government has said it will work constructively with Australia to “resolve our respective concerns on trade and economic issues in a balanced way”.
The comments follow the Australian government’s announcement yesterday of a “pathway” to a possible resolution of the long-running dispute over Beijing’s 80% tariffs on Australian barley.
The Australian government said it will temporarily suspend its World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute as China promises to review its barley tariffs over the next three to four months. Australia said it will resume the WTO challenge if Beijing doesn’t scrap the tariffs at the end of that review.
Wang Wenbin, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson, told reporters in Beijing overnight that the two economies “have a lot to offer each other and such cooperation is good for both sides”.
He said improving the relationship between China and Australia was “not only in the fundamental interest of both peoples, but also conducive to peace and development in the Asia-Pacific and beyond”.
Wang said China was “ready to work with Australia to further implement the important common understandings reached between the leaders at their Bali meeting” in November and also between the foreign ministers in December:
By following the principles of mutual respect, mutual benefit and seeking common ground while shelving differences, we aim to re-establish trust between the two countries and bring bilateral relations to the right track and, in this process, resolve our respective concerns on trade and economic issues in a balanced way through constructive consultation to the benefit of both peoples.