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The Chinese social network, very popular among young people, is banned by several institutions in the United States, Denmark and Canada, for fear of exploitation of personal data. This is the subject of Talk franceinfo. Every evening from 6 p.m., Manon Mella and her guests debate with Internet users on the franceinfo Twitch channel.
Parliament President Roberta Metsola and Secretary General Alessandro Chiocchetti have decided to ban the use of the TikTok application on the institution’s professional devices. The European Commission announced on Thursday February 23 a similar measure followed by the White House on Monday 27. Why did the United States, the European institutions and even more recently Canada prohibit the Chinese application to their officials? We discuss it in the Talk.
Ludovic Pauchant receives Nicolas Arpagian, Director of Cyber Security Strategy at Trend Micro, Cyber Threat Analysis Specialist and Jerome Colombaina technology journalist. Marc Faddoulan artificial intelligence researcher will also be in the Talk remotely from the United States.
Cybersecurity threats?
What is pushing various Western institutions to ban the TikTok application from their employees is tied around the issue of data leakage. In October 2022, TikTok was pinned for having integrated a tracking pixel which makes it possible to locate Internet users.
In this sense, the parent company of the ByteDance application is the subject of increasing surveillance by Westerners for fear of direct access given to Beijing to the data of TIkTok users.
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