Shadow Cyber Security Minister James Paterson says the social media app company TikTok “admitted” to him via correspondence that Australian user data is “accessible” and has been accessed in mainland China.
He said he “immediately” forwarded the correspondence in July last year to Minister for Home Affairs and Cyber Security Clare O’Neil.“What we’ve also had in the meantime is an admission from TikTok that they used their application to spy on a journalist in the United States who had been writing critical articles about them to try and physically co-locate them with TikTok employees to identify those journalist sources.
“All social media apps that are headquartered in authoritarian countries and typically that is China – pose a degree of risk to us.”
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