That BBC advised his staff to remove tick tock hers cellphone company for fear of privacy and security. With this way press organization be the first of great Britain in issuing this statement.

Nevertheless, BBC hold on to that for now will continue to be used That platforms for editorial and marketing purposes. In this sense tick tock consistently denied wrongdoing.

TikTok is banned from government phones in the UK and elsewhere

In some countries such as the United States, Canada, New Zealand and Belgium, banned government cell phones from owning TikTok. This also includes anyone who works for the European Commission. However, it is still allowed on personal devices.

Big Afraid What’s that data collected by the platform from cellphone company can share with the Chinese government by the parent company tick tock, bytedancebecause its head office is in Beijing.

In the 2022 found that employees of bytedance track location from one set journalist Western people. According to the company, those responsible for the incident are dismissed.

In connection with the decision of BBC, Alice Kearnwho leads Affairs Committee overseasexpressed his views on Twitter: “If protecting resources isn’t a priority, that’s a big problem.”

tiktok .jpg

On the other hand, presenters from Channel 4 News, Krishnan Guru-Murthytweeted in reaction to the decision: “BBC News made a big play to being seen on TikTok but now BBC is telling staff not to have it on their phones.”

Other social media platforms are also faced criticism of privacy and databut they especially Property WE. instead, bytedance confront claims of existence Affected by Beijing. Although there is no concrete evidence regarding this, several incidents occurred that surfaced suspicion although TikTok denies many times has shared data with the Chinese government. The platform claims that all data from western users are stored overseas.

For example, an influencer from the United States shared a video criticizing the Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims, and after uploading the video, it was deleted. However, TikTok said that this was a mistake.

All Western social networks, which according to TikTok collect similar data about their users, are officially blocked in China.

In the face of all these and many other events, China accuses the US of spreading disinformation and suppressing TikTok. Both former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden believe the platform should be sold to US companies.