{"id":2758,"date":"2023-01-06T01:50:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/?p=2758"},"modified":"2023-01-06T01:50:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:50:55","slug":"cybersecurity-experts-tiktok-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/cybersecurity-experts-tiktok-bans\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Experts + TikTok Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is happening? 18 Republican Governors have banned TikTok on state devices. Some states are also banning WeChat, QQWallet and AliPay from other Chinese companies. \u00a0Anton Dahbura, executive director of Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, a cybersecurity academic and research center says that \u201cIt\u2019s not just the obvious security that someone could bring down the power grid. It\u2019s infiltration of systems to obtain confidential information that is quite valuable to foreign actors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why is this important? In the US companies track your data for marketing purposes. In China, companies are required to share tracked data with the Chinese Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.route-fifty.com\/tech-data\/2022\/12\/governors-tiktok-bans-make-sense-cybersecurity-experts-say\/381184\/\">Route Fifty | Governors&#8217; TikTok Bans Make Sense, Cybersecurity Experts Say<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is happening? 18 Republican Governors have banned TikTok on state devices. Some states are also banning WeChat, QQWallet and AliPay from other Chinese companies. \u00a0Anton Dahbura, executive director of Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, a cybersecurity academic and research center says that \u201cIt\u2019s not just the obvious security that someone could bring down the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}