TikTok is her "Trojan horse". China, according to Rob Joyce, who heads the cybersecurity unit of America's National Security Agency.
Joyce, speaking at congress of the Silverado Policy Accelerator on Monday, called TikTok "a strategic issue." It comes in addition to the regular, day-to-day cyber threats that the US spy agency regularly fends off from government-sponsored hackers and cyber-criminal gangs out to win money.
"Why bring the Trojan horse into the fort," Joyce said. “Why in the US?”
Joyce's remarks come as the country's new National Cyber Security Strategy describes China as the "broadest, most active and most persistent threat to both public and private sector networks".
After his revelations Snowden but also dozens of scandals that have been revealed about the action of the secret services of social networks and ISPs based in the USA, Rob Joyce's statements sound very hypocritical. Or are they telling us a veiled truth?
So according to the questions posed by Rob Joyce, why did we accept a Facebook in our homes and on our mobile devices? The problem is ultimately where the data is stored, and of course who can control it.
TikTok is described by US officials as a Trojan horse because the data it collects has direct access the china.