This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, March 31st,

2003.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Can Congress ban the popular Chinese app Tic Talk on National Security

Grounds? A recent congressional hearing amid some Chinese App Tic-Tock on National Security Grounds.

A recent congressional hearing amid some typical grandstanding attempted to address the issue.

So what's the future of Tic-Tock for users while also credibly dealing with any security issues.

Cato is Jennifer Huddleston, Will Duffield, comment.

Characterize what you believe to be the most legitimate, not to say legitimate, but most legitimate, criticisms of maintaining the legality

of what many members of Congress believe is basically a Chinese government

surveillance program in the form of a popular app.

One of the key criticisms against Tik Talk has been, are there a risk to national security?

This distinguishes it from some of the broader tech policy debates that we've seen and this

certainly came up in the hearing that was recently

held before House Energy and Commerce.

When it comes to the details of those arguments, a lot of it has to do with what you believe China would be capable of doing

with if they got access to the data that could be obtained from this app.

First off, as we kind of saw in the hearings, there would still have to be several

steps to potentially obtain that data, but if you believe that Tik-Tock via its parent company,

Bight Dance, could be subject to this pressure from the Chinese government.

Then the question is, what data on Americans would they have access to and what could they potentially do with that data?

That's one of the reasons why the first steps we've seen

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