The Chinese Communist Party is collecting “huge amounts of personal data from Americans” through its spy tool TikTok, “which should be concerning to everybody,” Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen told Newsmax on Friday.

“We’ve got tons of whistleblower evidence. We’ve got recordings from inside [Chinese internet company and TikTok parent company] ByteDance,” Knudsen said while appearing on “The Chris Salcedo Show.”

“The CCP has access to TikTok and all of the U.S. user data despite what they’re claiming in their lawsuit. We know this to be true.”

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