Delete TikTok App to Protect Your Personal Data, Says UK Lawmaker

Delete TikTok App to Protect Your Personal Data, Says UK Lawmaker
TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken on Nov. 27, 2019. Dado Ruvic/Reuters
Alexander Zhang
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People should delete TikTok from their smartphones to protect their personal data from “hostile” threats, a senior British Conservative lawmaker has said.

There have long been concerns around TikTok over its links to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), because its parent company ByteDance was founded in the country, and critics have raised fears data could be passed to the Chinese state.