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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Technology
Josh Taylor

TikTok can still access data from Australian government devices via app on personal phones, academic warns

TikTok on a phone
Last week Australia’s attorney general ordered federal public servants and politicians with government-issued phones to delete TikTok from mobile devices. Photograph: Joly Victor/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

TikTok could still access information held on Australian government devices if public servants and politicians continue to use the app on their personal mobile devices, according to a legal academic from the University of New South Wales.

Dr Katharine Kemp, who focuses on consumer law and has researched a wide variety of privacy policies for digital apps, said the loophole could limit the effectiveness of the ban on TikTok from government devices.

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