A lot of people just see the Chinese app TikTok as a platform for sharing funny videos, but it poses a data security risk, according to Brendan Carr, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
“They just see TikTok for what it appears to be on the surface, but that’s just the sheep’s clothing,” Carr recently told Epoch TV’s “China Insider ” program.
“If you look beneath it, there’s an awful lot of data that’s being pulled from your device, and apparently sent back to China,” he said.
“Underneath that, it’s pulling biometrics, including face prints, and voice prints, keystroke patterns and rhythms, search and browsing history, location information,” he noted….