TikTok tick-tock: Is it time for all platforms to be held accountable?

University of Surrey's Prof Alan Woodward discusses the ongoing concerns about TikTok's use or misuse of users' data, and considers whether all social media apps should be treated with the same suspicion. The social media app TikTok has been the focus for concerns that the Chinese government could access data on individual users. Whether the app poses a security risk remains unclear, but TikTok has now been banned from government devices in several countries. However, reports suggest that computer-based tools designed to collect data from publicly available sources can also collate extensive information on TikTok users - as well as…