FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai asking both to remove the TikTok app from their respective app stores, claiming the app is a Chinese surveillance risk. Suddenly it’s late 2020 all over again.
“TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance — an organization that is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by the Chinese law to comply with PRC’s surveillance demands,” Carr’s letter reads. “It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.”
