Calls are growing from governments around the world to delete or ban the Tik Tok video game app. Due to concerns that the application developer will allow the Chinese government to use it as a means of collecting and processing user data, which would pose a threat to national security in these countries.

According to the Arab Portal for Technical News, the Indian government last week banned the application with 58 other Chinese applications, while the United States is also considering banning the application alongside Chinese social networking applications The other, and the Australian government is also investigating the app and directing Defense Department personnel not to use the app on their phones.

So what are the reasons that call these governments to delete and ban the Tik Tok app?

Initially, the application does not provide the type of data that it collects, and it is assumed that Tik Tok collects the same data that other social media applications collect, but the problem is related to a mechanism Data collection on the application, according to many digital security experts, which lies in the fact that much of this data is collected in an unclear manner.

In turn, Matthew Warren, professor of cybersecurity at RMIT University, revealed that what happens when you install an app like Tik Tok is that you grant it permission to access the microphone, camera, and destinations Your contact is necessary for the application to work, but this is also the place where things become more blurry, where there is suspicion that the application can also collect your site data and the application may collect information about other applications in your mobile phone.

exploits data

While a Reddit user explained that he had analyzed the mechanism of the work of the Tik Tok application and found that it collects much more data than other applications, where he said: Tik Tok is a service to collect The data appears as a social networking site, and if you find a loophole in the programming interface of any application that allows it to collect information about you or your contacts, this application exploits this data.

The published post also contained a technical explanation of the type of data stored in Tik Tok and the ways in which the app prevented users from refusing to collect their data via the app, and the post also highlighted that the app is trying to Prevent you from knowing how much data it collects about you.

Chinese-origin

According to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute analyst (Fergus Ryan), the main thing that distinguishes Tik Tok from other apps is the fact that it is owned ...