U.S. data is stored in the U.S. and Singapore, with strict controls on employee access. Mollie O’Brien, a high schooler from Ontario, Canada, posted the now-infamous video of herself to TikTok on Jan. 28, BuzzFeed reported. "THERE’S NO WAY THIS IS REAL … RIGHT," one user commented. The company has an American CEO and Chief Information Security Officer with decades of industry and U.S. law enforcement experience.

Get all the sports news you need, direct to your inbox.A teenager is going viral after posting a video revealing the unthinkable reason she was forced to visit the hospital.Mollie O’Brien, a high schooler from Ontario, Canada, posted the now-infamous video of herself to "I regret the thing I did … And you’re wondering what it is … Well … I shoved an entire harmonica in my mouth and it’s stuck now," O’Brien’s clip — which is just her third ever shared on the platform — has since received more than 7 million views, plus plenty of questions about both how the harmonica got trapped and how it was removed.The high schooler revealed to BuzzFeed that she stuck the instrument in her mouth in order to entertain her younger cousin — but she quickly realized it would not come out.

TikTok’s challenge is that it does capture significant user data, but that’s the same issue with competing U.S. owned platforms such as Facebook and Google. CNN’s Brian Stelter celebrated users of the China-owned TikTok allegedly utilizing the platform to sabotage President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday.

The spokesperson added that the … “They're getting to know who your friends are,” O’Brien said, “who your parents are, they can map all your relationships.

In an exclusive one-on-one interview aboard the plane widely known as "Air Force Two" en route to Paris, I asked Amb. Citing the photos of empty seats at Trump’s rally on Saturday, a notable departure from his typically large crowd size, Stelter credited TikTok user Mary Jo Laupp for the lower turnout due […] brian to'o dancing his way around penrith If you haven't already seen it, Panthers winger Brian To'o is killing the TikTok game. Credit: NBA 2K.

2:29. iconic vines that cured my anxiety - Duration: 11:05. wig snatched 3,034,280 views. These are the facts.”O’Brien is not convinced.

And all that information is going straight to massive super computers in the cloud in China.”TikTok has already insisted that “we have never provided user data to the Chinese government, nor would we do so if asked.” In response to O’Brien’s claims, a TikTok spokesperson told me “there is a huge amount of misinformation on TikTok out there. They will try to get you to give it to them for free—if they can't get it that way they’ll steal it,” he added, referencing the Marriott and Experian data breaches, the theft of passport numbers and the “most intimate credit details.”Much has been made of TikTok’s sister app in China, Douyin, “They are going to be able to put social credit scores together on all Americans and everyone in the world soon,” O’Brien suggested in his radio interview.

O’Brien tackled that defense. "She then told her mom about the incident, who, despite not being upset, “was shocked she raised such a weird kid.” The two quickly left for the hospital — where doctors recommended a dentist, who "Let’s not do this again, OK dear?" O’Brien’s video has now received nearly 20,000 comments — mainly from users who could barely believe what she did.

"After 30 minutes it hurt, but then it was kinda numb," she told the outlet.

the dentist said, according to O’Brien.TikTok users were seemingly obsessed with the incident, which thankfully had a happy and relatively pain-free ending. “We need to make sure that doesn't happen, so we’re very seriously looking at TikTok, WeChat and some of these other apps.” This is a far-fetched allegation, but the much more real threat is that a Chinese social media platform used by hundreds of millions in the west can map the patterns of likes and dislikes, behaviours, voting intentions, affiliations, and areas where people might be influenced.As for the surveillance allegation, the gathering of so much video data tagged to individuals and their friends is a clear goldmine of data that And so as to the likelihood of that U.S. ban?

TikTok has enjoyed an incredible run—but much of that success is now under threat, and it cannot do very much to defend its position, either by proving the negative of its data handling or denying the nature of its Chinese ownership.I am the Founder/CEO of Digital Barriers—developing advanced surveillance solutions for defence, national security and counter-terrorism. Clearly, though, it’s an allegation that is not going away. “India has already banned those apps,” O’Brien said.

The threat of a U.S. ban on TikTok has now ratcheted up, with the U.S. National Security Adviser alleging that the video platform “is getting facial recognition” on millions of Americans as well as mapping their relationships, and then sending all of this “intimate data” back to China for processing. Brian Jones - The Tiktok Sessions (May Edition) - Duration: 2:29. Get your Fantasy Football league up and running today!NBA says photographer who posted offensive Kamala Harris meme is no longer in bubbleCowboys' DeMarcus Lawrence says pregnant wife made call to not opt outBill Belichick praises Cam Newton: 'He's a hard-working kid'Report: Florida man arrested after living in luxury suites of pro soccer stadiumDuring a turbulent time in NFL history, Jerry Jones went 109 days without addressing the media. Those in the The allegation that TikTok sends user data back to China is unproven and has been denied by the company and its parent ByteDance. It is almost certain that if the U.S. does carry out its threats and sanction Chinese apps operating in the west, with TikTok chief among them, then we will see other countries following suit.