Is TikTok safe for us?

Tiktok is a chinese based social network. Its were teens make videos about their lives or dancing videos. Recently, there has been a article about how Tiktok was looking at our search history. Or Tiktok is watching us from our camera, we don't know if this is real or not. Is tiktok really taking over our lives, without even having us know. Is there a real issue that the Chinese government hiding something that we don't know, or have access too. Is this something that everyone has to keep an eye out for, or are we just gonna let this happen.