Premier Daniel Andrews has admonished a “junior bureaucrat” who banned TikTok on state department work phones with “no authority”.
TikTok says Dan Andrews is one of the most popular Australian politicians on the app.The federal government is due to release a review on how to prevent political censorship and disinformation on TikTok.
“The reason that decision never proceeded was that it was very unclear that any kind of authority or process had been gone through in order to provide that advice. Somebody had acted without any authority whatsoever.” TikTok has consistently dismissed fears about its data harvesting as being baseless. The social media platformTikTok Australia and New Zealand general manager Lee Hunter said Andrews is one of the most popular local politicians on the app.
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil is expected to ban the short-form video app on federal government devices, once a seven-month-long review of the security risks posed by social media platforms is completed, followingreported NSW is considering a ban. No other Australian state or territory has moved to block TikTok.Davis questioned why the state environment department’s secretary had overridden internal advice from staff members and whether that was a political decision.
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