White House sets deadline for purging TikTok from federal devices | The World

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:32:38 +0000

The US has joined Canada in banning social media platform TikTok from government-owned devices due to concerns over links to the Chinese government. While the platform has been at the centre of controversy before, Dr Milovan Savic from Swinburne University tells The World it shouldn't be singled out when it comes to privacy issues.

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