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Your cell phone may be a spy in your pocket, sending personal information to the Chinese government which then feeds disinformation back to you through TikTok and other social media apps, according to retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert Spalding.
Spalding, former chief of the China, Mongolia, Taiwan Division at the Pentagon and Senior Defense Attaché to China, served as senior director of strategic planning for the National Security Council from 2017 to 2018. He is an expert on the military threat posed by China.
“The information that’s collected about you, particularly from apps like TikTok, is just about everything that every sensor on that device [collects],” Spalding said in a March 10 interview with Jan Jekielek, a senior editor at The Epoch Times and host of “American Thought Leaders.”…}