TikTok banned on government and university devices in Australia and ASU.

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TikTok banned on government and university devices in Australia and ASU.
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The Australian government has announced that it will remove TikTok from all federal government-owned devices over security concerns, becoming the latest U.S. allied country to initiate action against the Chinese-owned video app. The move underscores growing worries that China's government could use the Beijing-based company, owned by ByteDance Ltd, to harvest users' data to advance its political agenda, undermining Western security interests. With Australia's ban, all members of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network have banned the app from government devices.

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