
However, the TikTok app has raised concerns over data collection practices and data sharing due to its parent company ByteDance, based in China.

UBC says it has become its fastest-growing social media platform, used for entertainment, education, research, outreach, and recruitment purposes. TikTok is a popular social media platform that allows users to view and share short-form video content, with suggestions determined by the app’s eerily smart algorithms. The University of British Columbia (UBC) issued a statement last week asking its students to uninstall TikTok from their mobile devices, as part of a ‘cautious’ move, and instead use their mobile browsers to access the social network instead.
