US FCC Commissioner Requests Google & Apple To Ban TikTok – Search Engine Journal

U.S. FCC commissioner declares TikTok a national security risk, requests Apple and Google remove TikTok from app stores

The United States Federal Communications Commission (FTC) commissioner accused TikTok of harvesting user data and called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores.

China Access To User Data

Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the FTC, cited a BuzzFeed News report that China had total access to user data.

Leaked audio from TikTok internal meetings indicated that China could access all user data from September 2021 to January 2022.

The timing is important because TikTok executives testified in October 2021 that a U.S. security team decides who has access.

It was against that backdrop that Mr. Carr sent a letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, requesting that they take action to remove TikTok from their respective app stores.

The letter stated that TikTok is out of compliance with Apple and Google’s terms and…

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