The University of Wisconsin System , a group of state universities in the US state of Wisconsin founded in 1971, has banned the use of TikTok on university-owned devices, as have a number of other US universities. States are also taking a stand against TikTok. Nearly one in two have banned use on government devices, including Mississippi, Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and Wisconsin. The US Congress recently banned TikTok over bipartisan security concerns. The app is also prohibited on military devices.
Fear of user data theft
TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020. Critics fear that the Chinese government could access user data such as browser history and location via TikTok. The portal is consumed by two-thirds of US teens and has become the second most popular domain in the world. But there have long been bipartisan concerns in Washington that Beijing would use legal and regulatory power to seize U.S. user data or try to spread fabricated pro-China stories or fake news.
Such fears are fueled by news last year that a China-based team unlawfully accessed data from U.S. TikTok users, including two journalists, as part of a covert surveillance program to track down the source of leaks. There are also fears that the company is sending masses of user data to China, violating strict European data protection rules. Additionally, there are concerns about TikTok's content, which is said to be harmful to teens' mental health.
Chinese portal defends itself against a ban at universities
“We are disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon and enacting policies that do nothing to promote cybersecurity in their states and are based on baseless falsehoods about TikTok,” said TikTok spokesperson Jamal Brown. TikTok is developing security and privacy plans as part of an ongoing national security review by President Joe Biden's administration.
Of all places, a renowned US university does not share the concerns of TikTok critics. The portal poses no threat to US security, say researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
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