In response to a lawmaker’s question, NSA director Paul Nakasone said he is concerned about TikTok’s potential to facilitate broad influence operations
U.S. National Security Agency director Paul Nakasone on Tuesday expressed concern about Chinese-owned video app TikTok’s data collection and potential to facilitate broad influence operations.
In response to a lawmaker’s question about any concerns he has on the influence of TikTok on American children, Nakasone told a Senate hearing, “TikTok concerns me for a number of different reasons.”“Secondly is the algorithm and the control of who has the algorithm,” Nakasone added.Nakasone ended his comments by asserting that the TikTok platform could enable sweeping influence operations.
A bipartisan group of 12 U.S. senators is set to introduce legislation on Tuesday that would give Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo new powers toand other foreign-based technologies if they are found to pose national security threats. The U.S. government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , a powerful national security body, in 2020 unanimously recommended ByteDance divest TikTok because of fears that user data could be passed on to China’s government.
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