Data Gathered Through TikTok Might Enable CCP to Undermine US Economy: Former State Department Official

Data Gathered Through TikTok Might Enable CCP to Undermine US Economy: Former State Department Official
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Stilwell, in Washington on June 21, 2022. Matthew Pearson/CPI Studios
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Information collected through ubiquitous video app TikTok might enable the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to undermine the U.S. economy, warns David Stilwell, former assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific.

He said that if Americans’ purchasing preferences or information is revealed to TikTok, which would mean that it can be accessed by the CCP, the Chinese regime then can use that as leverage to “withhold those supply chain information ... or the difficulty we had with supply chains,” he said on “China in Focus” on NTD, a sister media outlet of the Epoch Times.

Hannah Ng is a reporter covering U.S. and China news. She holds a master's degree in international and development economics from the University of Applied Science Berlin.
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