Elizabeth Freund Larus, Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, commented on CBN News on U.S. bans of popular Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat. In her September 18 interview, Professor Larus warned that TikTok, a Chinese video-sharing social networking service, feeds the facial recognition and user data that it collects to China. WeChat is a Chinese messaging app. Its messages are not encrypted, which allows the Chinese government to read messages.
View the interview at
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2020/september/us-banning-wechat-tiktok-citing-national-security