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TikTok working with Chinese government to monitor user data causes privacy concern

By Jack Baudoin, Lifestyle writer | January 21, 2020

With billions of people using social media, concerns regarding user security should be higher now than ever before. Social media is more popular than it has ever been, with 3.8 billion people using it in 2019, according to a Nov. 6 article by TheNextWeb.TikTok...