Why TikTok May (or May Not) Be Viewed as a National Security Threat

Is the popular social media app TikTok a national security threat? A July 15 Yahoo Finance article answered with a classic social media response: “It’s complicated.” The article solicited comments on the topic from several cybersecurity experts, including NYU Tandon Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Justin Cappos, who effectively summed up the thrust of the article. “So it isn’t so much that the U.S. is saying ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe anyone would let an app do this terrible terrible thing!’ It’s that you’re in bed with the Chinese not the Americans,” he observed. Read the full text of the article here.

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