It has been alleged by a former employee of ByteDance, Tiktok's parent company, that there is no "the CCP tells us to give them X data and we give it to them" - there is a committee of CCP officials with admin/"god-level" access to their servers who can simply go in and take whatever data they want whenever they want.
It is also public record that the app has been caught grabbing data it should not have access to, including web search strings and clipboard contents.
Frankly I'd never install it, especially since most of the videos on it get echoes to youtube anyway.
It is also public record that the app has been caught grabbing data it should not have access to, including web search strings and clipboard contents.
Frankly I'd never install it, especially since most of the videos on it get echoes to youtube anyway.