'I've never seen anything like that,' Brendan Carr said on 'CBS Mornings.'
on Capitol Hill to ban the app in the U.S. — and"the day could not have gone any worse for TikTok," said Brendan Carr, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission.Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle spent hours denouncing TikTok's data collection practices, painting it as a tool used by the Chinese government to track and spy on Americans.
Carr said"the most important thing" Chew had to do was"build some level of trust and credibility with Congress" and he"completely failed" to do that. , including phone numbers, email addresses, contacts and WiFi networks. ByteDance has said the company does not share information with the Chinese government, but U.S. officials say Chinese law requires the company to make the app's data available to the Chinese Communist Party.
Carr has been leading and shaping opinion on a possible TikTok ban, although neither he nor the FCC — which oversees communication laws and regulations in the United States — have any direct control or regulatory power over the app. In response to Chew's testimony, Chinese leaders announced Friday that China has never, nor would it ever, ask any company for data or intelligence in foreign countries.
TikTok is already banned on federal government devices, as well as some state government devices. Federal lawmakers have introduced Caitlin Yilek and Nikole Killion contributed to this article.
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