There are going to be other applications like this, and there needs to be a policy in place that balances the ability to share information with protection from adversaries' ability to conduct surveillance and information operations against the United States, Nakasone said. Certainly, this is a piece that our nation has to consider," he said. "I think the broader discussion obviously rests with the policymakers now. The department has already prohibited the use of TikTok on government phones, the general noted. Nakasone said, "If you consider one-third of the adult population receives their news from this app, one-sixth of our children are saying they're constantly on this app, if you consider that there's 150 million people every single day that are obviously touching this app, this provides a foreign nation a platform for information operations, a platform for surveillance, and a concern we have with regards to who controls that data." Policy makers need to be aware of these threats, be able to quantify them, and be able to take action against them, he said. The scale and scope of the platform is problematic. The problem with TikTok is that a large number of Americans use it, and China may have the ability to direct misinformation through it, as well as collect data from it, said Plumb. Cyber Command, director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service. Members of the House Armed Services Committee's subcommittee on cyber, information technologies and innovation heard testimony from Plumb and Army Gen. TikTok is a social media, video-hosting service owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
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