US National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone asserts TikTok could enable sweeping influence operations.
WASHINGTON, DC, USA – US National Security Agency Director Paul Nakasone on Tuesday, March 7, expressed concern during congressional testimony about Chinese-owned video app TikTok’s data collection and potential to facilitate broad influence operations.
Nakasone ended his comments by asserting that the TikTok platform could enable sweeping influence operations. Nakasone said his concern is not only the fact that TikTok can proactively influence users but also its ability to “turn off the message,” and noted its large number of users.The NSA, part of the Defense Department, is the agency responsible for US cryptographic and communications intelligence and security.
“The swiftest and most thorough way to address any national security concerns about TikTok is for CFIUS – of which the Department of Defense and the NSA are a part – to adopt the proposed agreement that we worked with them on for nearly two years,” said TikTok representative Brooke Oberwetter, adding that TikTok’s “status has been debated in public in a way that is divorced from the facts of that agreement and what we’ve achieved already.
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