Surveillance “Capitalism” with Chinese Characteristics (Is the Chinese owned TikTok social media app a threat?)

TikTok is widely popular with the youngest on social media and the program is sucking up information from the world’s youth.

(From Fortune)

The Telegraph’s Robin Pagnamenta argues TikTok and its parent company pose a far greater global security concern for Western economies than Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei Technologies. ByteDance’s suite of apps, Pagnamenta warns, “are hoovering up oodles of data on hundreds of millions of foreigners – British, American, Brazilian and Indian – many of them children.”