A member of the US Federal Communications Commission will have a tough time getting Apple Inc. and Google to remove the popular Chinese-owned video app TikTok from their app stores.
The FCC doesn’t regulate the stores and Brendan Carr is a Republican on the agency controlled by Democrats.to Apple and Google that was disclosed Tuesday, Carr called TikTok “a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data.”The FCC didn’t immediately reply to a request to comment. TikTok, Apple and Alphabet Inc.’s Google declined to comment.
TikTok has been under pressure from US officials over whether Americans’ private data gathered through the app could be handed over to the authoritarian regime in China — something TikTok has said it would never do. “What TikTok’s been trying to do is get themselves on the right side of the US government,” said Rick Sofield, a Washington-based partner at Vinson & Elkins LLP and former Justice Department official. “The government is still trying to figure out what to do.”That review continues and national security officials also are examining the app, including its recent deal to have Oracle Corp. house data from US citizens, Sofield said in an interview.
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