Google and Apple are being urged to take down TikTok as concerns continue to grow around data being sent to China
A U.S. Federal Communications Commission member, Brendan Carr, says that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to data harvesting and Beijing’s apparent unchecked access to sensitive information.
The request will unlikely be accepted, as the Federal Communications Commissioner is not responsible for regulating app stores.
It comes as a Buzzfeed report found that employees of TikTok’s parent company, Bytedance, had been accessing U.S. users’ private information.
Carr says he will give Apple and Google until the 8th of July to respond to his request and to explain why they won’t remove the app from their app stores.
