CANBERRA, Australia—The United States federal communications commissioner (USFCC) has warned the Australian government not to trust TikTok to keep any user data it collects out of the hands of the Chinese communist regime.
USFCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said that TikTok could not be trusted to keep data safe from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that the U.S. government’s experience with the company on data privacy was nothing short of ‘gaslighting.’
The commissioner was appearing before the Australian government’s senate select committee on foreign interference through social media, which runs from April 20-21.
The committee is looking at ways to stop social media apps from promulgating foreign interference in the country and has focused primarily on apps that have deep-seated connections to authoritarian regimes….