A US FCC commissioner urges Apple, Google to boot TikTok from app stores

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WASHINGTON/NEW YORK : A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission has urged the chief executives of Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to kick Chinese-owned TikTok out of its app stores. Brendan Carr, the FCC commissioner, said in a letter to the CEOs, dated June 24 and sent on FCC lette

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK : A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission has urged the chief executives of Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google to kick Chinese-owned TikTok out of its app stores.

Carr asked the companies to either remove TikTok from their app stores by July 8 or explain to him why they did not plan to do so. A TikTok spokeswoman said the company's engineers in locations outside of the United States, including China, can be granted access to U.S. user data"on an as-needed basis" and under"strict controls."

TikTok has been under U.S. regulatory scrutiny over its collection of U.S. personal data. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks, ordered ByteDance in 2020 to divest TikTok because of fears that U.S. user data could be passed on to China's communist government.

 

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