The Australian Government is facing calls to ban social media app TikTok over national security and spying concerns.
The Herald Sun reports that plans are underway to haul the video-sharing platform before the Foreign Interference through Social Media senate inquiry amid fears the Chinese-owned platform leaks users’ information to Beijing.
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The popular video app, owned by Chinese company Bytedance, is used by more than 1.6 million Australians.
It allows users, most of them in the 16-24 age bracket, to record videos of themselves and broadcast them on the app.
Committee chair Senator Jenny McAllister said she hopes TikTok will comply with the Australian government’s request for their cooperation in a probe into the platform.
“I think Australians will expect to hear from them,” she told the Herald Sun.
“Part of the job of this Committee is to get all of those stakeholders in the room and create a forum where we can have a really good discussion about what are the boundaries, about what is and isn’t acceptable on these types of matters.”
The newspaper reports that the Australian Defence Force also banned the app on any defence-issued device earlier this year.
In the video below: The Sunrise Newsfeed panel discusses banning TikTok
India also recently banned 59 Chinese apps, including TikTok, saying they are “prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, defence of India, security of state and public order”.
The Morrison government last week dedicated $1.35 billion of its $270 billion defence spending plan to national cyber-security capabilities following ongoing cyber attacks from a foreign actor, widely believed to be China.
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