Separately, Home Affairs is looking at options to deal with national security concerns around Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat, which stem from their data collection practices and China’s intelligence laws. The laws compel companies and citizens to cooperate with the government. The agency has also been investigating social media data collected from the likes of Meta’s Facebook and Instagram, as well as Twitter and others, whose platforms and data have been abused by foreign regimes. A requirement for local user data to be stored in Australia would not be a panacea for national security concerns around TikTok, but is one of...