Podcaster Rogan says extent to which TikTok collects user data, including keyboard taps, is 'crazy'

Podcaster Joe Rogan is calling TikTok's privacy policy "crazy" and says the social media app can detect everything users type and can access their microphones to listen to what they are saying.

"This is crazy," Rogan said Tuesday on his "The Joe Rogan Experience" podcast. 

Reading from TikTok's privacy policy, Rogan pointed out that the short-form, video-hosting service owned by Chinese company ByteDance, collects information from users' "mobile carrier, time zone settings ... keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices."

"They're monitoring your keystrokes, which means they know every f****** thing you type," he said.

He also argued that because TikTok has access to users' audio settings "it has access to your microphone. That means it's listening to you right now."

Rogan also suggested that China is a major national security threat and said the country's ruling Chinese Communist Party "came up with the most addictive version of social media" to spy on Americans.

His concerns come after Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr warned Americans earlier this month that TikTok is pulling their biometric data such as face prints and voice prints, and apparently sending it back to China.