Tag: Investigation Into TikTok

Children Should Be ‘Really Careful’ on TikTok, App Is ‘Genuinely Troubling’: CIA Director

December 18, 2022
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William Burns, the director of CIA, has warned about children being potentially harmed by spending time on TikTok and talked about the dangers posed by the app that is owned by a China-based company. In a recent interview with PBS, Burns was asked about his recommendation to people regarding their kids’ usage of TikTok. “I’d…

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TikTok, the Clock Is Ticking

December 8, 2022
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TikTok, the Chinese short-form viral video app, has over 200 million downloads in the United States and poses a severe national security threat as data is stored in China. Reports have revealed the way the Chinese Communist Party has used it for manipulative subversion—yet no one in Washington seems to want to do anything about…

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Australians Worry About CCP Access to TikTok Data: Poll

October 11, 2022
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An overwhelming majority of respondents are concerned about Beijing being able to access Australian users’ personal information through TikTok, a poll has found. Victorian Liberal Senator James Paterson commissioned pollster Tele Town Hall last week to survey attitudes toward TikTok among nearly 630 people in the northern Melbourne constituency of McEwen and over 1,200 people…

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The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

September 29, 2022
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 In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial intelligence system, which was called the IJOP,” says Cain, referring to a…

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PREMIERING 7:30PM ET: The TikTok Trojan Horse and China’s Long Arm of Artificial Intelligence: Geoffrey Cain

September 29, 2022
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This episode will premiere on Thursday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. ET.  In this episode of American Thought Leaders, I sit down with Geoffrey Cain, an award-winning journalist, technologist, and author of “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China’s Terrifying Surveillance Dystopia of the Future.” “Everybody was constantly being watched by an artificial…

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TikTok’s In-App Browser Can Monitor Clicks and Keystrokes: Researcher

September 10, 2022
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Security concerns about TikTok, the globally popular short video sharing app have come to light as a hacker claims to have broken into its database and accessed user information. On Sept. 3, a user with the name AgainstTheWest claimed to have hacked TikTok and WeChat on the Breach Forums message board, a hacker forum. The…

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China Government Entity Tried to Set Up TikTok Account for Propaganda Targeting Western Audiences

August 11, 2022
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A Chinese government public relations agency asked TikTok to set up an account that would target Westerners and improve China’s image but wasn’t overtly linked to the government, according to Bloomberg and based on an internal message provided to them. In an email received in April 2020 by Elizabeth Kanter, the head of TikTok’s government relations…

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