Last Updated: April 04, 2023, 02:58 IST
FILE – The TikTok emblem is seen on a cellphone on Oct. 14, 2022, in Boston (AP Image)
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to a government-wide ban on the usage of TikTok after the completion of a overview by the Home Affairs division
Australia will announce a ban on TikTok on authorities telephones this week, following different nations in barring the Chinese-owned video app over safety issues, Australian newspapers reported late on Monday.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese agreed to a government-wide ban on the usage of TikTok after the completion of a overview by the Home Affairs division, The Australian newspaper reported.
Victoria state will even ban the brief video app from authorities telephones, The Age newspaper reported, quoting a state authorities official as saying Victoria would observe the federal authorities’s steerage.
The United States, Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium and the European Commission have already banned the app from official gadgets over safety issues.
TikTok has come beneath rising scrutiny due to fears that person information from the app owned by Beijing-based firm ByteDance might find yourself within the arms of the Chinese authorities, undermining Western safety pursuits.
Tiktok Australia basic supervisor Lee Hunter was quoted by The Age as saying the corporate was upset to study of the ban by way of the media “despite our repeated offers to engage with government constructively about this policy”.
“We stress that there is no evidence to suggest that TikTok is in any way a security risk to Australians and should not be treated differently to other social media platforms,” he was quoted as saying.
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