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\"There is a reason why China has this app...,\" Conservative deputy Alicia Kearns, who chairs parliament's foreign affairs committee, told Sky News television.
\"Our data is a key vulnerability and China is building a tech-totalitarian state on the back of our data. So we have to get far more serious about protecting ourselves.\"
Kearns referred in passing to the recent incident in which the US shot down a Chinese ballon off its Atlantic coast. China has denied US allegations that it was being used for espionage purposes.
Kearns said the bigger concern was \"data penetration\" via Chinese companies, and the way Beijing was using that data to intimidate \"those who sought refuge in the UK and around the world\".
Asked if she was saying people should delete TikTok from their phones, she answered: \"Without question... It is not worth having that vulnerability on your phone.\"
Kearns has been a longterm critic of China's intelligence activities and what she says is its abuse of technology to that end.
A spokesman for TikTok responded to Kearns's allegations on Sunday.
\"TikTok is enjoyed by millions of people across the UK, and we want to be clear that they can trust us with their data.
\"We're taking steps like storing UK user data in our data centre operations in Ireland, starting this year; further reducing employee access to data; and minimising data flows outside of Europe.\"
Relations between London and Beijing have been tense for a number of years.
Points of contention have included China's crackdown in the former British colony of Hong Kong, and Britain's refusal to grant a Chinese company Huawei access to its 5G network because of security concerns.
Last October, a British-based Hong Kong pro-democracy activist accused Chinese diplomats of assaulting him during a protest outside China's consulate in Manchester, northern England.
During the ensuing diplomatic row, six Chinese envoys left Britain and returned to China. Kearns at the time accused them of having \"fled the UK like cowards, making clear their guilt\".
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“为什么中国这个程序……”,保守党副艾丽西亚卡恩斯议会外交事务委员会主席告诉天空新闻电视台。乐动扑克
“我们的数据是一个关键的脆弱性和中国建立一个tech-totalitarian状态的数据。所以我们要更加认真保护自己。”
卡恩斯提到通过最近的事件中,美国击落中国气球大西洋海岸。中国否认了美国的指控,它被用于间谍活动。
卡恩斯说,更大的担忧是通过中国企业“数据渗透”,和北京的方式使用这些数据来恐吓“那些寻求庇护”在英国和世界各地。
问她说人们应该从手机删除TikTok,她回答说:“没有问题…不值得拥有,脆弱性在你的手机上。”
卡恩斯一直长期批评中国的情报活动和她所说的是其滥用技术。
发言人周日TikTok回应卡恩斯的指控。
享有“TikTok数以百万计的人在英国,我们要说明的是,他们可以信任我们自己的数据。
“我们采取措施像英国用户数据存储在我们的数据中心操作在爱尔兰,从今年开始;进一步减少员工访问数据;和欧洲以外的最小化数据流。”
伦敦和北京之间的关系紧张了许多年。
争论的焦点包括中国镇压的前英国殖民地香港和英国拒绝授予中国公司华为进入其5 g网络出于安全考虑。
去年10月,英国香港民主活动人士指责中国外交官在中国领事馆外抗议侵犯他在曼彻斯特,英格兰北部。
在随后的外交争端,6名中国特使离开英国,回到中国。卡恩斯当时指责他们“逃离英国像懦夫一样,明确他们的罪行”。
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