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‘Spy on Me’: TikTok Users Aren't Worried About China Getting Their Data
Support for banning TikTok continues to wane, with American users saying they have “nothing to hide” from the app's Chinese overlords
Only a few months later, Forbes reported the “sensitive financial data” of some of TikTok’s biggest U.S. creators had been stored in China and was accessible by ByteDance employees, including social security numbers and tax IDs. Rep. Michael McCaul, a Texas Republican who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, called TikTok “a spy balloon in Americans’ phones ” earlier this year. At the same time, Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, said he was alarmed by “how rivers of data are being collected and shared in ways that are not well-aligned with American security interests.”
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