FBI Director Christopher Wray warned Friday that Chinese officials are capable of executing missions Tik Tok to control a recommendation algorithm “that allows them to manipulate content and use it to influence people if they want to.”
Speaking at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, the director also said the app collects user data that the Chinese government can access and use for traditional espionage operations.
This tool is in the hands of a government that does not share our values and whose mission is diametrically opposed to what is in the interest of the United States. Christopher Ray said Fox News to me
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China’s hacking program is the largest in the world and has stolen more Americans’ personal and business data than all other countries combined, according to the FBI director.
He also said the risks of TikTok include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users or its own recommendation algorithm, which could be used in influence operations if it so chose, or to control software on millions of users. hardware.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has called on regulators to ban the TikTok app in the US.
According to him, “there is no world in which sufficient data protection can be created to ensure sufficiently that data will not eventually return to the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.” The FBI is working to inform users and lawmakers of these national security concerns, years after President Donald Trump warned people to stop using them.
The Wall Street Journal in 2020 wrote about itFor 15 months, TikTok has quietly but persistently collected data about users who used the app on an Android device, thus violating Google’s usage policy.
Then Trump discouraged people from using TikTok and threatened to ban the app in the US.
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