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.
Alicia Kearns, a Conservative MP who chairs the Foreign Affairs Committee in the House of Commons, told Sky’s “Sophy Ridge On Sunday” programme that the video-sharing platform is linked to the CCP’s efforts to build a “tech totalitarian state.”…