Some German MPs on a parliamentary intelligence board think the country should consider a harder stance on TikTok.

Some politicians in Germany consider the app “a danger to our democracy,” says Roderich Kiesewetter, vice chairman of the Bundestag’s intelligence control committee and member of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), because it is an “important instrument” in China and Russia’s hybrid warfare.

Jens Zimmerman, a member of Germany’s Social Democratic Party, said that the government should consider at least banning the app on federal devices. This is the case for the EU institutions, for instance.

  • RedPandaRaider@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    If government access to social media data is a breach of GDRP, then every single social media site is operating illegally in the EU.

    • muelltonne@feddit.deEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The details are much complexer than “government access to social media”, but the same issues are also applying to US social media sites. If you want to know more, google “US EU privacy shield”