Is TikTok a threat to national security?

As U.S. lawmakers move forward with legislation that could potentially ban TikTok, China is warning of repercussions. Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News senior foreign correspondent, and Chris Krebs, former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, joins to unpack the larger national security threat TikTok could pose to the U.S.

[adotjon]

It wasn't a problem until it exposed the genocide to the kids.

[girthquake]

Allowing political parties to take donations from private corporations is a threat to national security

[TinPictish]

Every teenage girl will go into withdrawal. They might also have a clue about what's happening in their classes.

[jim]

I don't have tiktok and I don't understand this. If it was that big of a deal, why didn't they ban it 3 years ago when it first broke out?

[TK-]

The government sees it as a threat because of how quickly people can organize and speak against them.

[PierreCrutchfield]

TikTok has a privacy policy which explicitly states that it may collect biometric identifiers and information from its users. Name a US social media company operating in China with a similar policy. location data vs biometric data...hmmm

[dogedave]

Just another broad vague bill that grants over-reach.

[VangBongThoi]

Tiktok actually did the same to other social media FB, YT, except opening a backdoor and admin account for US. government supervision.

[wesleyweber]

I don’t care about the users. I think it’s all pretty stupid. What I do care about is the data protection or lack of. If funny how they want to do things to us, then go ballistic when something happens to them. They’re like being in a toxic relationship with a narcissist.

[benedict]

Nope. The government already banned their employees from using it.

[rgarito]

All China has to do is to go to Google or any one of thousands of other "advertising" platforms and buy the same data that they gather on TikTok. There is a simple rule on the internet: If it is free, you are NOT the customer. You are the PRODUCT.

[lizhall]

Most app has the potential to access contacts. If you use Walmart wify, you have to privide your email with contact access. Consumers need more privacy protection.

[arxpharms]

I'm going to grab some popcorn and come back to these comments

[Katie-ibjr]

threat to mental health, threat to education, threat to social unity

[BowmanOverland]

Maybe, but this should be low on our priority list compared to other things

[martianmurray]

Sounds pretty anti-capitalist to force a private company to sell.

[perspective]

There is nothing stopping US from talking to the creators and putting limits on the app.
I think banning most things is a little extreme though.
The app maybe overstepping in its boundaries on privacy issues, and that can be discussed, but there are other solutions. I don't use it, however.

[David-pzn]

TikTok? Hardly, but dual citizens certainly are

[tayy]

A adversary misinformation platform it is a national security threat?

[fanwu]

Americans should think about why a Singaporean would want to found TikTok in China first, but not in the United States. In the last era 2000-2010, these things were 100% found in the United States first.