Utah declared that TikTok is prohibited on state electronic devices due to the company’s ties to the Chinese government. Since the app can harvest user data and sell personal details, several other governors have also limited public-sector use of TikTok.
TikTok doesn’t make its code publicly available, Patil said, so users just have to trust that the company is keeping its word.As an exercise in class, Patil said he has his students read the privacy statements published by social media giants. “I just come away with students who are blown away,” he said.“You should just assume that everything is being collected and will be used in any way the company wants,” he said.
The app is so effective that eventually a video from TikTok itself will appear nudging the user to consider whether they’ve been scrolling for too long. This worry isn’t new. Just ask Greg Kinnear’s character in the 1998 Nora Ephron movie “You’ve Got Mail,” who during one scene worriedly read aloud from a newspaper that Virginia’s government chose to remove solitaire from all government computers because no one had done any work for weeks. “You know what this is? You know what we’re seeing here? We’re seeing the end of Western civilization as we know it,” he told Meg Ryan’s character.
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