Australians Worry About CCP Access to TikTok Data: Poll
An overwhelming majority of respondents are concerned about Beijing being able to access Australian users’ personal information through TikTok, a poll has found.
Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson commissioned pollster Tele Town Hall last week to survey attitudes toward TikTok among nearly 630 people in the northern Melbourne constituency of McEwen and over 1,200 people in the inner city of Kooyong.
The respondents were asked, “Are you concerned about the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access Australians’ personal information on social media platforms such as TikTok?”
Almost four-fifths of respondents in McEwan and three-quarters in Kooyong expressed concerns about the security of personal information stored on TikTok….