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TikTok: China Is Not The Only Country With Access ToYour Data

Anthony Carranza
3 min readNov 16, 2022

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TikTok — a social media video app on 21 February 2020 [Mustafa Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency]

I subscribe to Malwarebytes Labs Newsletter because it covers things connected to social media. On this occasion, they included what I have been saying for months about TikTok and the so-called privacy violations committed by the app.

According to the post, the TikTok Privacy Chief, Elaine Fox, confirmed that China is not the only country to have access to your data. Yes, you read that right! In addition, the user data from the European Union (E.U) is stored on servers in the United States and in Singapore. Why doesn’t this information get mentioned in the news or repeated by high profile public figures? Food for thought.

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It is a popular thing to have negative public relations (P.R) with regards to TikTok because it is a Chinese-based app. The plain and simple reason.

At the present time, no country in Europe has banned TikTok. Depending on the country,

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Anthony Carranza
Anthony Carranza

Written by Anthony Carranza

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