FCC commissioner urges TikTok be removed from Apple, Google stores over 'unacceptable national security risk'

"TikTok is not what it appears to be on the surface. It is not just an app for sharing funning videos or memes. That’s the sheep’s clothing," Carr wrote. "At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data."

TikTok app logo on the App Store is seen with TikTok logo displayed in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland, on July 18, 2021.Though it’s already well known that TikTok collects vast troves of sensitive data from its U.S. users, Carr pointed to a new report by BuzzFeed News citing leaked recordings that reveal ByteDance officials in Beijing have repeatedly accessed the data collected from Americans who downloaded TikTok from Apple and Google app stores.

In this photo illustration, the logos of social media applications, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, WeChat, Signal, Telegram, TikTok, Twitter and Facebook are displayed on the screen of an iPhone on April 26, 2022, in Paris, France."The list of personal and sensitive data it collects goes on from there," Carr wrote. "This should come as no surprise, however.

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Seems another administration wanted this done. People said they had other reasons besides security. But people resisted and Biden just dropped the banning.

Trump was right again.

Far too late for this… trump tried to warn us… our younger generation is already far to consumed by the Chinese spyware ..

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Yeah, because too much footage is being released through tiktok vids, that show the actions of this tyrannical regime.

Yeah ok

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