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Drew Harwell Mar 10, 2023

New: A former TikTok employee is secretly fighting the company on Capitol Hill, telling congressional investigators the app is lying about its defenses against Chinese spying.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/10/tiktok-data-whistleblower-congress-investigators/

A former TikTok employee tells Congress the app is lying about Chinese spying

His claims of data-security flaws, which the company disputes, underscore how seriously Congress has begun taking the wildly popular short-video app.

The Washington Post

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@drewharwell did you see this? belgium bans tiktok on government phones: https://www.reuters.com/technology/belgium-bans-tiktok-federal-government-work-phones-2023-03-10/

Belgium bans TikTok from federal government work phones

Belgian federal government employees will no longer be allowed to use the Chinese-owned video app TikTok on their work phones, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on Friday.

Reuters