The use of the Beijing-based TikTok app by U.S. military service members on their personal phones poses a risk to U.S. national security, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has said.
Most American service members fail to see TikTok as a national security threat, Commissioner Brendan Carr told a House hearing on protecting service members and veterans from scams.
“They treat it as just another app for sharing funny videos or memes. But that’s simply the sheep’s clothing,” Carr said.
TikTok faces scrutiny because its ownership by the Chinese company ByteDance means it must comply with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) direct requests for access to user data under China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law….