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2023-03-25 Cyber

Mariannette Miller-Meeks Forces TikTok CEO to Admit Chinese App Tracks Americans' Keystrokes

[Breitbart] TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew admitted to Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks that the Chinese app tracks users’ keystrokes during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on Thursday.

“Does TikTok track users’ individual keystrokes?” Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA) asked, to which Chew responded by stating, “Only for security purposes, for example, like detecting bots.”

After Miller-Meeks asked Chew to clarify that “the only purpose that you would monitor keystrokes is for security purposes,” the TikTok CEO said, “I can get back to you on the specifics,” and then deflected, by saying other companies behave in a similar way.

In a recent interview with GMA3: What You Need to Know, former Trump official Keith Krach warned that TikTok is able to track users’ keystrokes.

“That means they have access to your passwords, all your data, they have access to your health records, your bank records, they have access to your geopolitical information or your geospatial information,” Krach said. “That means that they can track where you are, where you’ve been, and where you’re going.”

“Look at it as a digital virus,” he added. “And the only cure for this; the only vaccine for this is a total ban.”

Some might agree with Chew’s suggestion that U.S. social media companies engage in the same behavior as TikTok, but the difference is that U.S. companies can be held responsible under U.S. laws, whether that takes the form of action by Congress or regulators, whereas the same is not possible with TikTok.

Elsewhere during Thursday’s hearing, Chew said “I don’t think that ‘spying’ is the right way to describe” the alleged Chinese surveillance of Americans using his company’s social media platform.
"It's more like an unannounced monitor to help you make sure you do things correctly."

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ] Top
File under: Commies

#1 Worse, it steers American kids to do stupid things and waste time.

Posted by Fleter Crasing2148 2023-03-25 07:04|| 2023-03-25 07:04|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, yes. We had to close down the3 American economy, mask-up (though masks don't work), stand six feet apart and stay out of gyms and off the beach.

But banning this spyware is a step too far.

Riiiiiiight...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-25 07:17|| 2023-03-25 07:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Anyone remember from a mere few years ago the Lenovo computers (made in China, natch) whose BIOS chips also captured keystrokes? The most charitable way I'll describe Democrats or anyone else bitching about this is stunning naivete.

Posted by Raj 2023-03-25 09:58|| 2023-03-25 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the notion that electronics and software sourced from China are "safe" now, or ever can be, is rather Panglossian.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-03-25 10:07|| 2023-03-25 10:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Dr Pangloss, a stunningly obscure and apt reference my friend. Well Done!

Briannica summation: "the pedantic and unfailingly optimistic tutor of Candide, the protagonist of Voltaire's novel Candide (1759), a satire on philosophical optimism"

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-25 13:11|| 2023-03-25 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Maybe China just does it better then the US three-letter agencies...US is jealous maybe?

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-25 13:24|| 2023-03-25 13:24|| Front Page Top

#7 In Michigan, TikTok has been banned on state government devices, but the Mitten Queen, Governor Whitmer, will maintain her TikTok account due to a sizable social media following. A security risk for government employees, but no problemo encouraging the proletariate to use it.

Posted by SteveS 2023-03-25 18:29|| 2023-03-25 18:29|| Front Page Top

#8 Surely this is the best of all possible worlds? Also: We're fooked

Posted by Frank G 2023-03-25 18:58|| 2023-03-25 18:58|| Front Page Top

#9 Dr Pangloss, a stunningly obscure and apt reference

Dr. Pangloss is obscure? The things I didn’t know!

Posted by trailing wife 2023-03-25 22:54|| 2023-03-25 22:54|| Front Page Top

#10 "F-ck that pessimist Pangloss! I'm focused
On possible futures -- the wokest!
My personal fave
Is this stunning and brave
Gay supremacist Day of the Locust!"

[Groundhog, Homer and Jethro (1947)]

Posted by Fleamp Lumumba1842 2023-03-25 23:58|| 2023-03-25 23:58|| Front Page Top

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