U.S. officials are concerned that the Chinese government could demand access to the extensive data TikTok collects on its users, more than 100 million of whom are in the U.S. Officials say that data could be used to surveil individuals or create tailored foreign influence campaigns. TikTok collects data that users share outright with the app and data that’s created when using the app, according to its privacy policy. Jen King, privacy and data policy fellow at the Stanford University Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, said there are no federal laws to keep Americans’ consumer data from being sold to foreign companies or governments, though data purchased from brokers might be lower-quality than what the Chinese government could obtain directly from TikTok.