A member of the Federal Communications Commission has asked Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing concerns that the popular Chinese-owned video app could send American data back to Beijing.
In a letter to the companies released Tuesday, Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner, said he believed “TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. user data” violated Apple and Google’s standards and should be taken out of the app store.
Policymakers have long worried that TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, could expose its data to the Chinese government. President Donald Trump tried to force ByteDance to sell the app or face expulsion from app stores in 2020. At one point, the Trump administration announced a deal that would have seen some of the company taken over by Oracle, the American cloud computing company. The sale never came to fruition.
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