WTH is Tik Tok So Dangerous? Klon Kitchen on How the Chinese Communist Party is Reading Your Keystrokes and Collecting Your Data
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 30 November 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Over a third of Americans spend hours every day on an app that directly feeds their data to the Chinese government. TikTok, owned by Chinese parent company Bytedance, is constantly collecting reams of data on its users, from GPS to keystrokes to outer-app monitoring, and even encrypted data that might be useful someday. But aren’t these D.C. elite problems — worrying only for those who plan to work in intelligence or government someday? Nope. The implications of China’s TikTok-enabled reach touch almost every American. Personal privacy aside, our national security is at immediate risk. The Chinese Communist Party exerts a measure of control over more than one-third of Americans. Are we going to continue to cede our sovereignty to Xi Jinping? Or will the U.S. Government shut down TikTok once and for all?
These questions with Klon Kitchen, a senior fellow at AEI. He specializes in national security, defense technology, innovation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. Previously, he was a director at the Heritage Foundation and was the national security advisor to Sen. Ben Sasse. He has worked at the NCTC, the National Counterterrorism Center, in the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence, and at the Defense Intelligence Agency.
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| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what hell's going on who in god's name |
| 0:21.7 | knows what it's all about what the hell is going on i'm d'n't know what the hell is going on mark |
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| 0:38.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:40.6 | Mark, what the hell is going on? |
| 0:42.3 | What the hell is going on is the Chinese Communist Party has infiltrated America through the Internet. |
| 0:51.0 | And they are collecting data on a third of the population. They are following not just |
| 0:58.2 | what you're buying and what you're watching. They're following your keystrokes on your phone. |
| 1:03.7 | They are getting all of your passwords, every account you have. They know what you're watching |
| 1:08.9 | and what you're not watching, whether it's good or not. |
| 1:12.6 | They know everything your children are doing and saying about you behind your back, and they're |
| 1:18.6 | doing it through a little app called TikTok, which has infected the lives of most of our children, |
| 1:25.1 | and this is a influence operation and a spy operation by the Chinese Communist Party that we are |
| 1:34.1 | readily allowing them to do, welcoming it into our homes, welcoming it into our lives, |
| 1:38.6 | and the government is doing nothing to protect us against it. |
| 1:40.9 | How's that? |
| 1:41.8 | Yeah, that's a pretty big what the hell is going on. |
| 1:44.6 | Look, this is a clear and present danger. If I said to my university class, when you walk out of |
| 1:50.6 | here today, the U.S. government will know everything you did. Every keystroke, right, your computers |
| 1:57.5 | were turned around while I was talking and you were shopping on, you know, |
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