TikTok: Is the security threat real?

Video sharing app TikTok is experiencing record-setting growth. But now it could be banned in the US. CNN Business explains why politicians fear TikTok's automatic data collection could prove a national security threat.
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[@oxdhaoxt3694]

Pretty soon every country will need their own social media networks

[@ashwincashok]

Even the data Facebook collected was misused. And I don't use tiktok

[@jesperpedersen3430]

Getting rid of TikTok would probably be doing us all a favour anyway. So much brain dead garbage on there.

[@applepeel1662]

Facts. India was smart enough to already do it.

[@Volticymo]

Can’t believe im actually watching cnn

[@terry8794]

Neither can I buddy. Though even in spite of all my fellow zoomers crying over TikTok I'm glad I never used it. They were confused as to why the CCP would even care about gathering intel on them, but they use that intel to slowly understand how they can subvert our culture to demoralize us.

[@Volticymo]

Terry i watch youtubers who talk about programming and computer science, that’s how I first heard of this, it shouldn’t even be political, the goals of the CCP should be stopped if we want to maintain our own liberty and free will

[@commandercaptain4664]

I don’t have the app or registered to it, I’ve only perused it on occasion. Is that considered just as vulnerable?

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Lies again? Security Guard Botox Suntik

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Yes

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Gov employees work phones are banned from using it, plus their personal tech& that of their households is strongly recommended not be used.

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I got a tiktok ad LMAO

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I got 2

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Amazon and Facebook collect users data does that mean we should stop using apps

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Yea idc about tik tok. Ill come back when instagram is banned

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In fact it is, because a teenagers brain isn't fully developed, so If somebody switches TikTok Videos, it is like that, or I don''t Like that, so it is not necessary to do it. It is a little bit Like conditioning the brain in a bad way. Everybody knows the experiment with the cookie. 🍪

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I'm NOT on the left OR the right but holy shit now I totally get why everybody calls you's fake news

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Ban this ban

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Get rid of that dumbing down trash!

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Yup

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@@aixnik8505 It's getting banned wether you like it or not♥️

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Just my opinion but Trump has taken on a lot of North Korea’s ways since his visits 😔

[@applepeel1662]

that's a pretty dumb statement no offence

[@damianamurphy4419]

Apple Peel my opinion was based on his military parade, although ours is much smaller and his most resent use of the military against it’s citizens. That’s almost making him sound like a communist dictator, not the President of the USA 🇺🇸

[@crey_3225]

Just dislike this vid, Cuz obviously they hate Tiktok...
The question is do you?
It was only created for MEMES not *HACK3D simulator* and that Clear enough

[@applepeel1662]

You really don't know anything do u? India has already banned TikTok nationally due to extreme data privacy concerns. It is logical for the US to do this as soon as possible. At least it will push back the majority of untalented people of tik tok to actually do something meaningful w their time

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