From WSJopinion: Is TikTok a national security risk? Students discuss banning the app in the U.S. in this week’s Future View column
The Chinese Communist Party maintains power by controlling the flow of information and strong-arming Chinese companies into doing its bidding. So why is the U.S. allowing TikTok, a Chinese-owned company, to gather data on tens of millions of Americans’ habits, interests and the content that they are receptive to? This is reckless to the point of creating a national-security threat.
The security of data collection is a genuine problem. TikTok is a Chinese company, and it is risky for the U.S. to let it collect and analyze personal data that it may deliver to the Chinese government. But these same risks occur with any Chinese product, including Chinese-made components for Apple devices. But almost no government has banned the use of Apple.
And so teens spend hours on TikTok: barely moving, barely thinking, barely doing anything except consuming hours of juvenile content. This isn’t a good use of anybody’s time. It engenders sloth, brings down attention spans and creates arthritic problems. TikTok on a phone can be taken to bed, the bathroom, the classroom and everywhere. Its harms are 24/7.
If the Chinese Communist Party planted 80 million cameras on street corners across America, there would be outrage. China has managed to do something similar with TikTok. Users grant TikTok permission to track keystrokes, pattern of life, contacts, geo-position, individual networks and online viewing.
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