“There’s no ‘Great Firewall’ here.
We don’t monitor every packet that goes back and forth.”
Anton Dahbura, executive director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, agrees.
But their data security resources and practices haven’t kept pace, making them soft targets for nation-state hackers.
“This is something everyone should take seriously,” he said.
Another such question was whether TikTok monitors pupil dilation.
Chew said it doesn’t.
It just identifies the eyes on a person’s face when they’re using certain kinds of filters.
While those are big problems, they aren’t unique to TikTok, Dahbura said.
“That eliminated their credibility for me,” he said of the panel.
Both experts said that one thing Congress could do is finally pass a federal privacy law.
Right now, in the US tech companies are governed by a patchwork of state laws.
“Our politicians have become extremely reactive in regards to technology,” Dahbura said.
“But the way technology is moving, we can’t be reactive anymore.
We have to be proactive.”
