want the election scrapped calling it a sham. welcome to the programme. we start with the international row over tiktok. china has accused the us of overreacting after federal employees were ordered to remove the app from government issued phones. tiktok is owned by the chinese firm bytedance. and on monday, the white house gave government agencies 30 days to remove tiktok from their phones. the us calls the guidance a critical step forward in addressing the risks presented by the app to sensitive government data. chris derusha is the federal chief information security officer. he said the guidance is part of the administration s ongoing commitment to securing our digital infrastructure and protecting the american people s security and privacy. china disagrees. here s a foreign ministry spokesperson. the ministry spokesperson. united states, the rhodes one the united states, the rhodes number one superpower, is so afraid of a mobile phone application to young people like so
They reassert control over this tech giants, going so far as to detain china s richest man, a few years ago. so, really it is very clear that beijing is in control of major tech companies in china. what s not clear, how much information bytedance might ve shared with beijing. tiktok has questioned the bans, saying it has not been given an opportunity to answer questions. spokesperson brooke 0berwetter said. caitlin chin is a fellow at the centre for strategic and international studies, where she researches technology regulation in the united states and abroad. she told us about the perceived threat.
Industry in the united states is very under regulated. many, many mobile apps have built their business models around collecting and sharing very similar types of information with data brokers. so tictac posts privacy concerns for sure, but it s not the only mobile app, and banning tictac would not solve the larger privacy problems within the us infrastructure. another moment, clearly a lot of the focus is on but that data could be that chinese may be able to harvest from the app. is there any suggestion that there is may be information within the other way? that china is using this to disseminate information, or spread false information around the world? we have been seen clear examples of china using personal information from tictac to disseminate propaganda on tictac. that said, we have seen examples of the chinese government setting state sponsored messages on social media platforms in general. tiktok. actually,
Twitter removed about 20,000 accounts that were affiliated with the chinese communist party that were spreading various messages related to the chinese government s role in addressing covid 19 to the chinese government s response to the hong kong democracy protests. so we do know that the chinese government is engaged in propaganda in general. wejust don t know is engaged in propaganda in general. we just don t know if it is happening on a tiktok. caitlin, briefly press. happening on a tiktok. caitlin, briefly press, the happening on a tiktok. caitlin, briefly press, the white - happening on a tiktok. caitlin, briefly press, the white house| happening on a tiktok. caitlin, i briefly press, the white house is pushing perhaps for an outright ban right across the us. could that happen? i right across the us. could that ha en? ~ . happen? i think that if the united states were happen? i think that if the united states were to happen? i think that if the united states were to abando
You have the politician threat is that you get five different answers. for some of our more hawkish members of congress the threat is that the chinese communist party is using tick tock as a vessel to spy on americans, to spy on government officials and potentially target specific credit but not critics or general information to the population. we have not seen examples of the chinese communist party using tiktok for these purposes. we know that tiktok collects personal information from an american. we know that the chinese government is interested in surveillance and propaganda more broadly. but we just have not seen since specific examples of tiktok being used as a propaganda vessel or a direct surveillance vessel so far. you talk about the data that tick tock collects from users. tell us a little bit about what they are