system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What type of information is being gathered on users of an app like TikTok? Why is this a national security concern?
gpt
The TikTok smartphone app monitors your clipboard and logs everything you type when you launch a webpage from TikTok's in-app browser, so there is the real possibility that they have been capturing sensitive data from outside the TikTok app to send back to their parent company in China.