TikTok’s harvesting of enormous amounts of user data will be the subject of an investigation by the Department of Home Affairs. Sparked by concerns that the Chinese Government can access the personal information of Australians, it’s not just TikTok in the frame. Chinese instant messaging/social media app WeChat and other social media companies are part of the brief. “The fact that we’ve got millions of Australians accessing an app where the usage of their data is questionable is very much a modern security challenge for the country, and no country in the world has found the easy solution for managing this,” said Home Affairs/Cyber Minister Claire O’Neill. She says the government isn’t considering a ban on the apps, but Aussies need to know more about how their data is accessed, stored and used.