Universities in more than 20 US states ban access to TikTok from their Wi-Fi networks. In a month, the Chinese social network will be banned from all institutional devices. He is accused of espionage, so from Tik Tok they are willing to teach their algorithm so as not to lose more than 100 million users assets in the United States.
By mid February no senator, congressman or official You can use the social network from your official mobile. “If TikTok triangulated all the information it has from the users themselves, they could know who lives with whom, is a partner of whom, hobbies, interests, hobbies, political ideology, religious beliefs, through all the data that the application collects from the source technical,” explains cybersecurity expert Deepak Daswani.
This could just be a pretext for the United States. “TikTok It is outperforming its competitors, especially in key population groups: Generation Z and Millennials. This is what is behind it, apart from trade and geopolitical wars,” adds the Vice Dean of Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, Christopher Fernandez. The author of ‘Anesthetized’, Diego Hidalgobelieves that the United States, used to leading the world in technology, has been scared to see that TikTok is the most popular app among the young.
TikTok has more than 100 million active users in the United States. “We are seeing how young people use this application very intensively for 2-3-4 hours a day, while in China they are precisely limiting it in time and in the type of content that people can see each day because it is doing them every more and more addicted,” adds Hidalgo.
The US is a market that they do not want to lose. Fernández assures that from the Chinese social network they are willing to be overseen by an independent board answer to Washington. “They are willing to show their algorithms in the United States,” adds the cybersecurity expert. For now, all the controversy has brought TikTok down a 11% of its value and has given up going public.
Source: Lasexta
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