Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Friday that forcing Chinese firm ByteDance to sell off TikTok is the only option, telling Newsmax that China has to be severed from being able to track Americans through the popular app.

Shaffer and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Blaine Holt joined “The Chris Salcedo Show” to discuss the ongoing saga of ByteDance’s ownership of the TikTok platform in the United States. At the end of the day, Shaffer and Holt agreed that China’s technology “is there in your phone to track you.”

And that’s a problem, they said, because the data that ByteDance collects, China owns.

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