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Joe Biden signed into law a measure that will force the divestment of TikTok. The platform has several months to sell the app to a US company or it will be banned. Malcore Founder David Robinson joined the show today to break down his report indicating this is the least secure app around.

Malcore is a cyber analysis platform. TikTok received the worst score out of all apps tested.

“The annual Social Media App Project evaluates the risk and privacy levels of major, popular Android social media applications with the goal of enhancing transparency. This project informs users about the data harvesting practices of these applications,” according to the analysis.

The project found TikTok to be a more significant threat because it can essentially access any app on your device, including things like your calendar and contacts.

According to the analysis:

Malcore scored TikTok 63.1. This was the highest (worst) score relative to all other applications we tested. The only score close was VK, the Russian app on 62.7. The industry standard was all other major social media applications scored 34 and below with the average score being 28.8 over 21 applications.

TikTok got this score because it had 9 trackers and a lot of permissions and code severity warnings. One of the biggest flags for us was the presence of the Russian VKontakte SDK.

“It is basically a phone imaging device,” Robinson said. “There is no reason for them to collect every single app that is running on your phone.”

Comparatively, Facebook got a score of 17 while TikTok got a score of 60. However, they probably don't have access to text messages, according to Robinson.

"There are huge amounts of influence on populations from authoritarian regimes and if they can control an app and influence your elections, then it is an existential app," Robinson said. "If you control the app, you control the algorithm, and you control the disinformation."