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Governing Chinese technologies: TikTok, foreign interference, and technological sovereignty
In this article, we analyse attempts to regulate and control TikTok through the lens of foreign interference and technological sovereignty in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union.
For example, in their submission to the Australian Parliament, Lee and associates (2023) build a taxonomy of the severity and likelihood of these concerns, including Chinese censorship, data harvesting, narrative control (i.e. mis/dis information), privacy violations, political interference, surveillance, and intelligence operations. Defining interference is difficult and policymakers face the challenge of striking a balance between a definition that is overly broad, potentially impeding freedom of expression and political engagement, and one that is too narrow to address emerging and evolving forms of behaviour that could hinder their broader international strategic interests (Berzina & Soula, 2020). activities conducted by or on behalf of a foreign power or state-level actor that are coercive, corrupting, deceptive, clandestine, or manipulative, with the intent to undermine the sovereignty (technological or otherwise), values, national interests, democratic institutions, and public confidence of a targeted country.
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