Almost since its launch, the TikTok platform has become a massive success. This platform allows users to create videos of up to 60 seconds and is most popular among young people . In the United States, it has become a social phenomenon, and because of its Asian origins, the government wants to investigate.
The problems surrounding Huawei's alleged espionage stem from the Obama administration, which began to view the company's growth with suspicion but took no action. Trump, the current US president, has China in his sights, not only for its technology but also for its applications, with TikTok being the next target.
This time, we can't talk about Donald Trump's stubbornness toward China, since the idea originated with two senators, Democrat Charles E. Schumer and Republican Tom Cotton. Both have asked intelligence services to thoroughly investigate the social media platform TikTok, an app that has reached 110 million downloads in the country, as it could pose a potential espionage threat.
Like any other social media app, TikTok has access to a large amount of user data, data that could easily fall into the hands of the Chinese government . Naturally, the company claims that user data is stored in the United States, not China, and therefore the Chinese government has no access to it at any time.
The American government's fear is that China could pressure the creator of TikTok to allow access to that data, pressure if you can call it that, since the company, ByteDance, would have no choice but to bow down and allow access.
