{"id":1741356,"date":"2022-11-16T15:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741356"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:17:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:17:56","slug":"we-do-have-national-security-concerns-fbi-director-warns-chinese-community-party-uses-tiktok-to-compromise-american-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-do-have-national-security-concerns-fbi-director-warns-chinese-community-party-uses-tiktok-to-compromise-american-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Do Have National Security Concerns\u2019: FBI Director Warns Chinese Community Party Uses TikTok To Compromise American Privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-do-have-national-security-concerns-fbi-director-warns-chinese-community-party-uses-tiktok-to-compromise-american-privacy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray told Homeland Security Committee House members Tuesday that the video-sharing app TikTok poses national security threats from the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns from Wray and the FBI come off the heels of Federal Communications Commission officials urging the U.S. government to ban the app to protect American citizens\u2019 private data, citing issues with controlling the information flow back to Beijing. TikTok officials denounced the federal agency\u2019s accusations, saying FCC officials have no role in the confidential discussions with the U.S. government related to the app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have national security concerns \u2014 at least from the FBI\u2019s end\u00a0\u2014 about TikTok,\u201d Wray said in a hearing focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/activities\/hearings\/11\/04\/2022\/worldwide-threats-to-the-homeland\">Worldwide Threats to the Homeland<\/a>. \u201cThey include the possibility that the Chinese government could use it to control data collection on millions of users. Or control the recommendation algorithm, which could be used for influence operations if they so chose. Or to control software on millions of devices, which gives it opportunity to potentially technically compromise personal devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chinese tech giant ByteDance owns TikTok, which currently has more than 200 million downloads in the United States \u2014 and according to Fox Business, the company must share its data with the CCP upon request, as required by Chinese law.<\/p>\n<p>Wray confirmed that Chinese companies must \u201cdo whatever the Chinese government wants them to in terms of sharing information or serving as a tool of the Chinese government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so that\u2019s plenty of reason by itself to be extremely concerned,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Vanessa Pappas, a TikTok executive, told U.S. Congress earlier this year that the social media app was making \u201cprogress toward a final agreement with the U.S. government to further safeguard U.S user data and fully address U.S. national security interests,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/media-telecom\/us-fbi-director-says-tiktok-poses-national-security-concerns-2022-11-15\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Aynne Kokas, professor of media studies and the director of the East Asia Center at the University of Virginia, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/11\/16\/1137076864\/fbi-says-china-could-use-tiktok-to-spy-on-americans-including-government-workers\">NPR<\/a> that the Chinese government uses TikTok to expand extra-territorial control over digital platforms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government has allowed for and has encouraged Chinese firms to actually engage in national security data on any data that\u2019s been gathered by a Chinese firm,\u201d Kokas said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese companies operate several apps used by Americans every day, which has sparked concern among U.S. lawmakers about the effectiveness of banning only one program.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-WI) announced last month they would introduce legislation prohibiting TikTok in the United States, outlining the threat that TikTok and other social media businesses that the CCP effectively manages pose to the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Kokas recently published her new book \u2018Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty,\u2019 which examines how tech ecosystems in the U.S. expand to data-gathering by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>She said Rubio and Gallagher\u2019s bill presents challenges to protecting American citizens\u2019 data privacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we look at all of these wide-ranging apps that are connected to Chinese firms, it\u2019s actually almost nonsensical to ban just one when we see platforms in areas like precision, agriculture, communications, gaming\u00a0\u2014 all connected to Chinese firms,\u201d Kokas said, \u201cSo it\u2019s really important to develop more robust data privacy regulations in the United States to protect users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump signed an executive order before leaving office that banned the app from the U.S. in 2020. 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