FCC commissioner urges Googles and Apple to remove TikTok from app stores

• Published date: 30 June 2022

Writing to the CEOs of Google and Apple in a June 24 letter, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called ByteDance "beholden" to the Chinese government. He added that the corporation was "required by law to comply with [Chinese government] surveillance demands," according to CNN

Referring to a BuzzFeed report that ByteDance's Chinese employees had accessed American TikTok user's data multiple times, Carr charged that TikTok is "out of compliance with the policies that both of your companies require every app to adhere to."

U.S. officials have been warning about the potential for privacy breaches with TikTok for years, relaying concerns about the possibility of the Chinese government accessing user data being a national security risk.

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