The possibility of China's communist government using the treasure trove of data gathered from the Chinese-owned app TikTok against the United States in a world conflict is 'absolutely terrifying,' a witness told a Senate committee Wednesday.Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., vice...
The possibility of China's communist government using the treasure trove of data gathered from the Chinese-owned app TikTok against the United States in a world conflict is "absolutely terrifying," a witness told a Senate committee Wednesday.
He asked how valuable that data could be should China seek to influence Americans against an adversary before an "impending conflict," such as with the Philippines. Tiffert said he is not aware of another comparable set of data and said "what is arresting" is that over the last several years, China has adopted data security legislation that allows it to ingest all the world's data — "as much as it can" — and not leak any of it out.
The U.S. is among many nations that have prohibited TikTok from being used on official devices, and other states have followed suit, even though TikTok's owner ByteDance maintains it has not and would never share data with China's government.
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