How TikTok became a US-China national security issue

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uncannily effective, at learning about your interests – based on how long you stay with a video and whether you like, forward or comment on it. That enables its algorithm to deliver more items of interest to what it calls the “For You” feed.

Two-thirds of American teens use TikTok every day,

Data collection: Along with what you seem to be interested in, TikTok learns your computer’s unique Internet Protocol (IP) address and – if you choose to let it – your precise location data and who is on your contact list. TikTok’s critics say that information could be used to develop profiles of select Americans and subject them to blackmail.

then President Donald Trump broached the possibility that China could use TikTok’s data to “track the locations of federal employees and contractors” and to “conduct corporate espionage”

TikTok could try to shape US public opinion by strategically suppressing or promoting certain videos. One official called the app a “Trojan horse” through which China could manipulate American thought.

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