(The Guardian) Clare O’Neil says Australians using TikTok should think about what data of theirs is being collected
Clare O’Neil, wearing her cybersecurity minister hat, was asked about TikTok harvesting people’s data while she was on ABC breakfast TV. She said: This is not just a problem about TikTok – this is a much bigger issue about how, as Australians, we’re going to engage with technology that’s invented in authoritarian countries.
So I’ve asked my department to begin a review process to consider how we can manage this. But I would just say to Australians – this is a really hard and very new problem. There is no country in the world that has quite nailed this.
I talked to my counterparts in the United States, in Canada, in Britain, in other friendly countries, and we’re all kind of trying to find our way through what is a set of very modern problems.
So we’ll be working pretty hard on that one. But I’d say to Australians: if you’re using TikTok, think about what data of yours might be being collected, and know that we’re not always 100% confident of how that data’s being used, and we do need to take precautions in this digital age.
Clare O’Neil, wearing her cybersecurity minister hat, was asked about TikTok harvesting people’s data while she was on ABC breakfast TV. She said: This is not just a problem about TikTok – this is a much bigger issue about how, as Australians, we’re going to engage with technology that’s invented in authoritarian countries.
So I’ve asked my department to begin a review process to consider how we can manage this. But I would just say to Australians – this is a really hard and very new problem. There is no country in the world that has quite nailed this.
I talked to my counterparts in the United States, in Canada, in Britain, in other friendly countries, and we’re all kind of trying to find our way through what is a set of very modern problems.
So we’ll be working pretty hard on that one. But I’d say to Australians: if you’re using TikTok, think about what data of yours might be being collected, and know that we’re not always 100% confident of how that data’s being used, and we do need to take precautions in this digital age.
