Microsoft is in talks to buy the app and any deal could include its Canberra business. FMTNews
WASHINGTON: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday there was no evidence that Chinese-owned TikTok had abused the data of its hundreds of millions of users.
“There are plenty of things that are on TikTok that are embarrassing enough in public, but it’s that sort of social media device,” he said via video conference, chuckling. The difference with TikTok, he said, is “that information can be accessed at a sovereign state level”, a reference to Chinese companies’ legal obligation to share data with state intelligence services if they want it.
Citing a national security threat, President Donald Trump on Monday gave TikTok’s parent ByteDance six weeks to sell the app to an American company or find it shut down.But Morrison downplayed the immediate threat.
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