{"id":39748,"date":"2021-09-09T15:20:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39748"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T01:21:06","slug":"knock-knock-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=39748","title":{"rendered":"KNOCK KNOCK, TIKTOK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/amlsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmktlhsk_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a=&amp;b=42159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/amlsrvbzlmmncvcmnyhllnsslbngmbmwwplzvtgmktlhsk_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a%3D%26b%3D42159&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631311489343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEay-T29QFHd-aSfgd99iX50iSmUg\">Marco Rubio<\/a>\u00a0(R-Fla.) knocked the CIA on Thursday over reports that the agency was considering establishing a presence on TikTok, which has faced scrutiny from lawmakers over its ties to China.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio in a letter urged CIA Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/erppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrszqbpy_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a=&amp;b=42159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/erppjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrszqbpy_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a%3D%26b%3D42159&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631311489343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG1o_fVvuhOoP3wqdhzqs25um4CWg\">William Burns<\/a>\u00a0to \u201ccommit that the CIA will not join TikTok, or any other social media platform that poses a serious threat to U.S national security as well as to Americans\u2019 user data and privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The letter from Rubio, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, comes a day after a spokesperson for the CIA\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmphyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwpdghv_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a=&amp;b=42159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qmphyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmwpdghv_yfsskkqlqnsgqsllfqgq.html?a%3D%26b%3D42159&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1631311489343000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqAxpDQu6jppGRxvHo_YSBUgHBpA\">told Politico<\/a>\u00a0that joining TikTok was a possibility as the agency seeks to boost its social media footprint and help recruit people. However the spokesperson acknowledged the risk that China posed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith TikTok, obviously, there&#8217;s the Chinese risk,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen.\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0(R-Fla.) knocked the CIA on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39749,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39748\/revisions\/39749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}