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Banning TikTok could weaken personal cybersecurity

  • Written by Robert Olson, Senior Lecturer of Computing Security, Rochester Institute of Technology
Banning TikTok could weaken personal cybersecurityBanning TikTok could unintentionally pose a cybersecurity risk.SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

TikTok is not be the first app to be scrutinized over the potential exposure of U.S. user data, but it is the first widely used app that the U.S. government has proposed banning over privacy and security concerns.

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