including potentially tictac s algorithm. it is unclear if tictac can find a buyer, and second bottom of the chinese government would allow it stop right in terms of regular users of tiktok. any alarm bells for you? if you have governments telling their employees to ban it, and ideas it off their device, what the rest of us? i government ban is very narrow, relatively speaking because so few government employees actually use tiktok on their work devices. most tiktok on their work devices. most tiktok users are between the ages of 18-30, tiktok users are between the ages of 18 30, whereas the average government employee will tend to stray a little bit older. most people don t use personal social media accounts on their work devices anyway. so i government ban would not affect very many people. a band or divestment on tiktok on the entire population, though, that could potentially affect hundreds of millions of people in the united states or if the span extends
through his controversial pension reforms. we start with increasing warnings from western governments over the use of the chinese social media platform, tiktok. today the british government banned it on all government and civil servants devices. take a listen. we re also going to ban the use of macro when devices. we will do so with immediate effect. mr speaker, this is a precautionary move. we know that there is already use of tiktok across government, but it is also good cyber hygiene. on the face of it the app might not look like a threat to national security. it s exploded in popularity as a platform to share short videos of viral dances and comical voice overs. and has become a part of today s youth culture.
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the eu and taiwan and in 2020 india banned it outright, along with other chinese apps, over national security concerns. and the us could follow suit. here s our business correspondent katie silver. sell tiktok or else you might be banned. that is what the us government has told the parent company of tiktok. it has accused the chinese owned app as posing a national security risk by gathering the data of millions of users and possibly feeding this back to the chinese government. it is something washington has alleged for years and something byte dance has consistently denied. the us government hasn t said this publicly, but it s according to a report in the wall street journal. in which a tiktok spokesperson also said if protecting national security is the objective, divestment, which is a company selling off a portion of its assets, doesn t solve the problem. and here is what the chinese government had to say. translation: the us has so far failed to produce evidence -
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