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TikTok is a Chinese owned company and as a result, we don’t know what type of data the China will be requesting from this company: location data, patterns of life, user names

Still, TikTok says American user data is stored in us and backed up in SIngapore not China.

TikTok is the latest app to face restrictions, last year some fitness tracking apps were named om some basis after some maps were found sharing soldier workout routines.