China Urges Australia To Treat All Firms, Including TikTok Fairly: Report

China said Australia’s “discriminatory” ban on TikTok from all federal government-owned equipment harmed the interests of Australian businesses and the public, with all firms from Canberra fair, a commerce ministry statement said on Friday. urged to behave.

“Australia considered TikTok to be different from other social media platforms and adopted discriminatory restrictive measures, which are not conducive to maintaining Australia’s national security,” the statement said.

China also urged Australia to create a conducive environment for bilateral economic and trade cooperation.

Meanwhile, facing a nationwide ban in the US, Chinese short-form video-making platform TikTok still has access to “clusters of personal data of Indian citizens” that were banned by the Indian government in June 2020 over national security. Used the app once before leaving. Concerns with many other Chinese apps as well.

According to a Forbes report, Indian users’ data is “widely accessible to employees of the company and its Beijing-based parent ByteDance”.

Before the ban, TikTok had around 150 million monthly active users in the country. “I don’t think Indians are aware of how much of their data is exposed to China right now, even with the ban in place,” a current TikTok employee told Forbes.

Almost anyone at the companies, who has basic access to their tools, can retrieve and analyze granular data about past TikTok users in India, “everyone from prominent public figures to the average person”.

ByteDance has over 110,000 employees around the world, including China, the US and Russia. In a statement, a TikTok spokesperson said they “have consistently complied with, and continue to fully comply with, the Government of India’s order since it came into force.” , and deletion,” a company spokesperson was quoted as saying.

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