Exército dos EUA proíbe o TikTok em meio a análise contínua de aplicativo de vídeo fabricado na China

Exército dos EUA proíbe o TikTok em meio a análise contínua de aplicativo de vídeo fabricado na China: The U.S. Army is barring its soldiers from using TikTok, a video-sharing app owned by a company with ties to the Chinese government. Lt. Col. Robin Ochoa, an Army spokeswoman, told Military.com on Dec. 30 the military branch considers TikTok a “cyberthreat” and that personnel may not use the app on government phones. Some 1.3 billion people globally use TikTok to create short videos. The new Army policy follows a December advisory from the U.S. Department of Defense stating that TikTok includes “potential security risks associated with its use” and that using the program could result in the exposure of personal information. Much of the U.S. government’s anxiety over TikTok is connected to ByteDance, a Chinese technology giant with government ties that has owned the app since 2017. ByteDance shares a series of partnerships with Chinese state organizations, Reuters reported, and must abide by Chinese law. In September, the Washington Post reported that TikTok appeared to be censoring …

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