Actor and child abuse activist Ashton Kutcher is warning that China may be using popular social media app TikTok to push “anti-Taiwanese propaganda.”
Kutcher told Joe Lonsdale that he sees a “massive regulatory battle on the horizon" considering TikTok is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance.
"If I'm China," he said, "and I want to create a problem in that area of the world — specifically, a naval problem in the South China Sea — I would probably want to utilize TikTok in order to influence the minds of Americans."
Newsmax reports:
TikTok recently updated its privacy policy to include the recording of biometric data from its users.
According to TechCrunch, an online news outlet focused on tech companies, the platform's new privacy policy reads: "We may collect biometric identifiers and biometric information as defined under US laws, such as faceprints and voiceprints, from your User Content. Where required by law, we will seek any required permissions from you prior to any such collection."
Kutcher voiced his concern that the current trend of misinformation campaigns and permissive privacy policies is making social media dangerous "not just for individuals, but the country at large."
"I think that's wrong," Kutcher added, "and I think we're about to face a reckoning in that particular domain, and it's going to probably change what social media looks like in the future. ... My sense is that what social media is today is not what social media is going to be in five years. If the trendline continues on the path that it's on today, my kids will not be on social media. If the trendline pivots, as I think it likely will, there's a chance that I will allow them to use it."
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