The SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, recently spoke out against the Chinese social media application known as RedNote. He believed it may breach the security of data from American users. In China, it is known by the name Xiaohongshu, a lifestyle application based on user-generated content. It comes at the time when TikTok is in potential danger in the United States: users could easily shift from the former to the latter. However, analysts in cybersecurity and privacy argue that the risks in RedNote may be much bigger as it is very easy for sensitive information to open up towards China’s government; the article dissects comments by Musk on how RedNote practices data collection, analyzes this and compares this with TikTok, and gives the implications about securing data by an application designed by a country such as China.