The EU is worried about the data harvesting Chinese-owned app TikTok which has become the epic center of a geo-political war between the US and China. The EU is choosing sides and is following the US in banning the data harvesting TikTok – at least for now on work phones belonging to politicians and public officials. Some security experts and politicians believe that the US and the EU should ban TikTok from everybody’s phone – including teenagers. In 2020, The Washington Post hired experts from the US-based privacy company Disconnect to check what data TikTok gathered of data and concluded “TikTok doesn’t appear to grab any more personal information than Facebook. And so should other data harvesting apps like Facebook Messenger, Google Maps, Viber, Discord, and so on.

Source: Washington Post March 12, 2023 22:34 UTC