Is China Spying On your Child through TikTok?

A young woman wearing hotpants shakes her barely clad derriere in front of the camera. It’s impossible to determine her age: she’s probably a teenager — she’s certainly very young.

‘I need some cold water now,’ is among the more innocuous of the comments. Another quips darkly: ‘If you gotta ask her age, she’s too young.’

Welcome to TikTok, the video-sharing platform whose content ranges from innocent, short clips of users lip-synching and dancing to a variety of backing tracks to more worrying — potentially dangerous — pranks and content.