"People who are working at TikTok and people who are working at Bytedance are talking to each other all the time just to sort of make the app run. But Bytedance and TikTok are really pretty intertwined on a day-to-day basis. TikTok is one of their apps that took off internationally and it got so big that they formed a separate business that is just TikTok. And some of those apps operate in China, in mainland China, and some of them operate internationally.
On the company Bytedance, which owns TikTokĮmily Baker-White: "Bytedance is a huge Chinese tech company, not necessarily unlike the way Meta and Alphabet are sort of the United States is huge tech companies and Bytedance has built dozens of apps over the years.
The other sort of flavor of threat is that the Chinese government, acting through Bytedance, could subtly influence what Americans are seeing on TikTok in a way that might not be evident to us at all, but in a way that could affect our civic discourse, our sort of commercial behavior, etc., in a way that would benefit the Chinese state and potentially hurt the American state." "And the fear is that the Chinese government could use that data, could collect that data, and then use it in ways that would compromise our national security. The first, which we heard a little bit about in the intro, is a fear that TikTok is installed on 150 million phones in the United States and is collecting lots of data about the people who are using those phones. And for the most part, they're talking about two types of things. On the federal government's fears about TikTokĮmily Baker-White: "For years, folks in the federal government have been talking about national security risks posed by TikTok. Founder and owner of Coco’s Confectionary Kitchen, a home bakery business. ( Lewis, senior vice president and director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. journalists TikTok’s parent company ByteDance spied on in 2022.
fear TikTok? GuestsĮmily Baker-White, technology reporter and senior writer at Forbes. is considering banning the hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok, over concerns that its Chinese ownership poses a threat to national security. (Stefani Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)ġ50 million Americans use TikTok for things like dance challenges, makeup tutorials and cooking videos. China urged the United States to stop "unreasonably suppressing" TikTok on March 16, 2023, after Washington gave the popular video-sharing app an ultimatum to part ways with its Chinese owners or face a nationwide ban. This photo illustration shows the TikTok logo reflected in an image of the US flag, in Washington, DC, on March 16, 2023.
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