The WA government will wait for Commonwealth advice before making a decision on potentially banning TikTok from its devices.
In response to questions about their approach to TikTok, almost every government department and agency contacted by the ABC referred back to the state government statement.
"Individual schools can also choose to locally block sites and applications themselves or request assistance from the department to do so." "We have policies and procedures that limit internal access to Australian user data by our employees, wherever they're based, based on need. "Our research confirms beyond any plausible doubt that TikTok is owned by ByteDance, ByteDance is a PRC [People's Republic of China] company, and ByteDance is subject to all the influence, guidance and de facto control to which the Chinese Communist Party now subjects all PRC technology companies," they wrote.
"They [ByteDance] can be requested by Chinese national security and intelligence and public security agencies to share their data to cooperate in intelligence gathering exercises, and they must comply, because otherwise the company will be in hot water. "I don't think that this is a China-specific thing. If we saw Instagram doing the same thing and very closely collaborating with national security agencies in the US, we'd probably not be too happy about that either."The data collected by TikTok could be extensive, Ms Bernot added, referring to a paper publishing by cybersecurity organisation Internet 2.
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