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3 Ways the CCP Uses Your Phone

The data is primarily used to determine which advertisements to place in front of you but can be used for other purposes, particularly if collected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), according to [retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Robert] Spalding.
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Data Surveillance

U.S. corporations and government officials may be particularly vulnerable to data surveillance, according to Spalding.
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“Somebody can track you and who you’re talking to. All they need to do is provide that data to an intel analyst and they can present a fairly good picture of what that person is doing. So it’s a competitive intelligence problem for business.”

The threat is magnified when data is collected on elected officials or government staff members, Spalding said.
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Through data surveillance, whoever collects the data from our cell phones knows us better than we know ourselves, Jekielek said in summary.
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Productivity Loss

American teens spent much more time than that using social apps in 2021, according to a study by Common Sense media. For teenagers, the average screen entertainment time was over 8.5 hours. For tweens, it was 5.5 hours.

All of that adds up to a significant loss of productivity for adults and a huge misdirection of attention for young people, according to Spalding, who said that result is intentional by the Chinese government, which owns a share of  TikTok’s parent company. Children and adults watch videos on the app for hours, drawn in by algorithms that predict the content that will appeal to each user.

By contrast, use of the app Douyin, the Chinese equivalent of TikTok, is limited to 40 minutes a day by the CCP, Spalding said.

“So if you ask a kid in China, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ They’ll say, ‘I want to be an astronaut,’”...But if you ask a child in the West the same question, they’ll say they want to be a social media influencer, he said.
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Disinformation

The official stance of the party is that liberal democracy is a fiction created by the American people to destroy the Communist Party.

“That’s what they say in Document No. 9,” he said, referring to the party communique that warns against Western values like freedom of the press and judicial independence in an effort to reinforce one-party rule.

The CCP uses social media to insert its messaging into the minds of Americans, according to Spalding. “China is trying to convince the world that it has a better system.”

“It doesn’t stop at TikTok. They’re on Twitter, they’re on Facebook. They’re on all their platforms and all of ours.”

Guys, now I'm free to tell you that you've been warned.