Reddit CEO calls TikTok 'spyware'

Steve Huffman, CEO of news aggregation and content rating website Reddit, called Chinese mobile video app TikTok "spyware."

"I look at that app as so fundamentally parasitic — that it’s always listening," he said at a conference before Silicon Valley investors. "The fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone."

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, said in December that TikTok is used by China as a spy tool.

"Here's the problem: it's owned by a Chinese company, and under Chinese law, that means the Communist Party has access to all of the data that TikTok scoops," he said.

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