Delta Airlines has banned TikTok. Delta employees had until Friday afternoon to remove the app from phones, computers, and other smart devices that connect to company systems.
The airline is just the latest entity to restrict TikTok’s use in the United States. Concerns about the Chinese app’s use of American data are finally starting to have a widespread impact.
That can’t happen soon enough, say experts.
Beijing sees the scramble for global data as an important part of its strategic competition with the West, forcing Chinese high-tech companies to share data and serve its goal.
According to a recent Hoover study entitled “China’s Grand Strategy for Global Data Dominance,” Chinese leader Xi Jinping sees data as the most important resource in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s life-and-death struggle with the West….