A Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing revealed the “terrifying” possibility that the CCP could use TikTok data in military conflict.
Asked about the value of having that amount of data in the hands of an enemy at a moment of “impending conflict,” Dr. Tiffert called the scenario “absolutely terrifying” and one that is constantly being considered.
The historian, who co-chairs the Hoover project on China’s Global Sharp Power, explained that China and its president, Xi Jinping, are “trying to create the largest repository of data in the world so that it is available for whatever purpose the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] would like to use it for.”The matter comes as TikTok, a ByteDance-owned platform, continues to come under scrutiny by various governments over fears that Beijing might exploit it for user data or its agendas.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump tried to outright ban new downloads of the Chinese app, but a series of court decisions blocked the rule from going into effect., “As painful as it is for me to say, if Donald Trump was right and we could’ve taken action then, that’d have been a heck of a lot easier than trying to take action [now].”
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