London Politica & Warwick Think Tank: The Social Face of Spyware Report
Following the recent heated battle for a TikTok ban in U.S Congress earlier this month, the words ‘TikTok’, ‘China’ and ‘Spyware’ have taken the internet by storm. In this new report, titled The Social Face of Spyware, we examine the ways in which the revolutionary social interface of TikTok may contain deeper interwoven systems of data collection, user tracking and surveillance tools that make it a substantial political threat. Through our series of articles, analysts from both London Politica and Warwick Think Tank delved into the ways in which TikTok has influenced propaganda and misinformation, whether it can be used as a means of surveillance, how it compares to long- standing privacy regulations and what implications this has for the wider international landscape.