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Australia takes first steps towards banning tiktok

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2023-04-07 12:34:39 from the Kill it With fire From space dept.
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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Australia will ban tiktok on government devices [news.com.au] 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?

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