The University of Texas at Austin joined several other colleges across the U.S. in blocking access to TikTok on the school's Wi-Fi, as state governments ban the app over concerns the company behind TikTok could pose national security and privacy risks.
"The university is taking these important steps to eliminate risks to information contained in the university’s network and to our critical infrastructure,". "As outlined in the governor’s directive, TikTok harvests vast amounts of data from its users’ devices — including when, where and how they conduct internet activity — and offers this trove of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government.
The ban will block the IP address associated with TikTok, meaning the app won't load while connected to the schools' Wi-Fi, but students can still access TikTok on their phones using their personal cellular devices. Genesis Pieri, a second-year student at UT-Austin, told TODAY she questions what TikTok is doing with user data, but "it's not something that keeps me up at night."
"It’s something that is in the back of my head, like, what are they doing with this data, if they do have it?" Pieri said. Pieri has over 12,000 followers on TikTok, and she explains that influencers she grew up watching didn’t look like her. She fears the ban could inhibit her push for better representation on the app, as many students will no longer be able to view and comment on the videos as freely.
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