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Hello After Hours listeners, Felix here.

After Hours is still on a break, but we wanted to bring back an episode from the archives we think

you'll still find relevant. Let us know what you think, and as. Okay Felix you've been following this hesitancy around Tic-Toc but now actually

some outright bands of Tik-Toc in India and for people who use US government

phones. What are your thoughts on what's happening

with Tik-Toc and why has this struck you as an especially interesting story to

start 2023? Well of course if I'm totally honest I will say I'm mostly worried about myself because I'm such an enthusiastic

user of Tik-Toc. But then of course it poses really all kinds of interesting issues. The first one has to do with sharing data across

national borders. You might remember this was such a big issue when EU privacy legislation first came along. Companies had to adopt in all kinds

of ways to make sure that they were in compliance. And then more lately, there's sort of this security twist.

Any data that China can touch now seem very problematic to a group of lawmakers just a week

ago, Brendan Carr, the leading Republican

representative on the FCC, he said that India created the blueprint.

You just cannot allow apps like Tik-Tok to operate and the argument is basically that one way or another

the Chinese government will be able to get access to US data, will be able to observe what US users do on the app.

And that is, at least in some circles, deemed irresponsible, deemed dangerous, and as a result,

we need a Tik-Tok ban.

And I'm curious, what do you make of it, Sarah?

Is it going to work?

Is it real? Will it happen?

I think it's very interesting as part of a larger trend.

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