Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines issued a warning to parents about the risks to children posed by social media app TikTok, which is owned by a Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked company based in Beijing.
Haines told NBC News on Sunday that the Chinese regime is “extraordinary” in how it collects “foreign data,” posing national security and privacy risks.
Later, when she was asked by an NBC reporter about whether parents should be concerned by their children using that app, Haines said, “I think you should be.”
Some of the reasons why parents and Americans should be concerned, Haines added, is the Chinese regime’s ability to obtain foreign data and “target audiences for information campaigns or for other things, but also to have it for the future so that they can use it for a variety of means that they’re interested in.”…