TikTok, with its links to China through its parent company, ByteDance, remains a “clear and present danger to America’s national security” and the proposed legislation that could ban its use in the United States is based on its “malign conduct, not its content,” Brendan Carr, the senior Republican commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission, said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“They told us for years, ‘Don’t worry. U.S. user data isn’t even available inside of China,'” Carr told Newsmax’s “Sunday Report.” “Turns out leaked material showed that everything is available in China, [including] search and browsing history, keystroke patterns, biometrics location.”

Personnel in Beijing used that access, he added, to surveil the locations of specific Americans. 

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