The former US Secretary of State and former director of the CIA is claiming that the Chinese Government is using viral social media app Tiktok to spy on people and excessively collect their data. In an exclusive interview with ITV's Good Morning Britain, Mike Pompeo said that every user of the app in the UK has had their data stolen by the Chinese intelligence services.
In his final few months working alongside former American president Donald Trump in office, Mr Pompeo tried but failed to get TikTok banned in the United States. And now he says he has seen evidence that Beijing is using the social media site to illegally obtain and monitor the nine million or so users of the app across the UK.
Speaking to the ITV breakfast show he said that as the former head of the CIA he was limited in what he could say about the supposed data breach but but made it absolutely clear that he thought Rishi Sunak's government need to put urgent measures in place and ban the app saying it poses a "national security risk".
