TikTok Is a ‘Weaponized Military Application’: Expert

TikTok Is a ‘Weaponized Military Application’: Expert
The TikTok app is seen on a smartphone in this illustration created on July 13, 2021. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters
Andrew Thornebrooke
Tiffany Meier
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Chinese-owned video app TikTok could be covertly sending users’ passwords, credit card numbers, and other sensitive data to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to one expert.

“When you’re actually doing keystrokes, typing each letter, each number, those are being recorded back in China, and under supervision of the Chinese Communist Party,” Casey Fleming, CEO of advisory firm BlackOps Partners, said during an Aug. 25 interview with “China in Focus” on NTD, a sister media outlet of The Epoch Times.

Andrew Thornebrooke is a national security correspondent for The Epoch Times covering China-related issues with a focus on defense, military affairs, and national security. He holds a master's in military history from Norwich University.
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