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TikTok steals your files, passwords, and more: FCC official

Posted on July 11, 2022 at 02:45 CDT by B. Livingston • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 19.28 • 2022-07-11

PUBLIC DEFENDER

By Brian Livingston

TikTok, the wildly popular short-video app owned by China’s ByteDance corporation, may be kicked out of Apple’s and Google’s download stores.

A US official boldly asserts that TikTok is “accessing users’ most sensitive data, including passwords, cryptocurrency wallet addresses, and personal messages.”

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