TikTok's parent company, Bytedance, is Chinese-owned, and lawmakers fear the company could turn over users’ data to the Chinese government.
This week a bipartisan group of 12 senators unveiled legislation boosting President Joe Biden’s ability to place a nationwide ban on the social media app.
“We have certainly made clear some of our national security concerns with respect with respect to the TikTok application, which is why it’s not authorized for use on government devices,” said John Kirby, NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications. Legislators fear that Chinese government officials could access sensitive personal information from American users.
“If the Chinese government says, ‘I want information on this user,’ they have to turn it over. So already there’s a security concern,” Hamer said.“The users on TikTok are not the client, they’re the commodity. They’re being sold as advertisements, as a resource, monetary transactions,” Hamer added.
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