FBI Director Christopher Wray warned members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday about the dangers TikTok poses to the United States’ national security.
“This is a tool that is ultimately within the control of the Chinese government, and it, to me, it screams out with national security concerns,” Wray told senators at a March 8 hearing on “Worldwide Threats.”
TikTok, a popular social media app that boasts more than 1 billion active users worldwide, is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance—a fact that makes the app all the more dangerous, according to Wray.
In an exchange with Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the FBI director confirmed that the app not only had the ability to collect users’ personal information but could also use it to control the software on their electronic devices….