WTH is Tik Tok So Dangerous? Klon Kitchen on How the Chinese Communist Party is Reading Your Keystrokes and Collecting Your Data

Over a third of Americans spend hours every day on an app that
directly feeds their data to the Chinese government. TikTok,
owned by Chinese parent company Bytedance, is constantly
collecting reams of data on its users, from GPS to keystrokes to
outer-app monitoring, and even encrypted data
that might be useful someday. But aren’t these D.C.
elite problems — worrying only for those who plan to work in
intelligence or government someday? Nope. The implications
of China’s TikTok-enabled reach touch almost every American.
Personal privacy aside, our national security is at immediate
risk. The Chinese Communist Party exerts a measure of control
over more than one-third of Americans. Are we going to continue
to cede our sovereignty to Xi Jinping? Or will the U.S.
Government shut down TikTok once and for all?


These questions with Klon Kitchen, a senior fellow at AEI. He
specializes in national security, defense technology, innovation,
cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he was a
director at the Heritage Foundation and was the national security
advisor to Sen. Ben Sasse. He has worked at the NCTC, the
National Counterterrorism Center, in the Office of the Director
of Central Intelligence, and at the Defense Intelligence Agency.


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