A high-level security review examining privacy concerns about TikTok and other Chinese social media giants is considering how to prevent political censorship and disinformation on the platforms.
When this masthead was told about the review in September, O’Neil confirmed that it would look into the data harvesting by social media companies such as TikTok and WeChat based in authoritarian states.
Australian officials have also consulted the Biden administration as both countries consider how to respond to growing concerns about TikTok.A TikTok spokesperson said the company had “engaged collaboratively with the Department of Home Affairs in relation to their review of all social media platforms in Australia”.TikTok was the most downloaded mobile entertainment app in Australia last year and it now has 7.
“When it comes to elections, that kind of microtargeting of political messages can go right down to certain electorates if they want to.”last week endorsed a bipartisan bill The next step would be to counter foreign interference through the platforms which were a “very permissive environment for state-backed disinformation”, he said.
Marcus Thompson, the Australian Defence Force’s former head of information warfare and the chair of cybersecurity company ParaFlare, said the key difference between the data harvesting conducted by TikTok and Facebook is that a company based in China is subject to national security laws which could force them to hand over the data.
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