The article discusses the ongoing debate around TikTok's operation in the U.S., particularly in light of national security concerns regarding user data potentially reaching the Chinese government. Despite Donald Trump's mixed signals about the platform, he appears to operate with his interests in mind, given his significant following. The piece emphasizes the broad data collection practices of TikTok and highlights comments from cybersecurity experts suggesting that the issues of data privacy are systemic across many platforms, not just limited to TikTok.
Yet it is also worth noting that TikTok is not alone in that many other apps harvest significant quantities of user data. As Ciaran Martin, a former head of the UK cybersecurity agency NCSC, observes: The system of personal data security across social media and other apps is so broken TikTok scarcely matters.
The US security argument against TikTok starts with the simple concern that large amounts of user data could end up in China, where it could ultimately fall into the hands of the country's ruling Communist party.
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