The Federal Communications Commission is not satisfied with TikTok's promise to keep its U.S. users' data safe. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said in a letter that the Chinese company has proved it can't be trusted with the information users give it and should be thrown out the airlock.
Carr wrote an open letter to both companies on his account. He urged the companies to remove the TikTok app from their app stores. Multiple cases of the company being extremely data-hungry have been cited by Carr. The Chinese government gained access to American users' data despite TikTok's claims that it kept U.S. user info on server in the U.S. Carr said in his letter that if Apple andAlphabet didn't send him a letter explaining themselves by July 8, he would remove TikTok from the app stores.
Byte Dance is a Chinese company. Carr said in his letter that the social app, which has been downloaded 19 million times in the first quarter of this year, poses an unacceptable national security risk because of its data harvesting activities.
The company's alleged abuse of user data puts it out of compliance with both companies' policies. Guidelines require apps to show how and where they will use personal information.
Neither Apple, Apple, or TikTok responded immediately. If we get any more information from Carr, we'll update the story. TikTok wants to remove any doubts about the security of user data in the U.S.
The FCC commissioner cited reports in 2020 that showed that TikTok was able to get its hands on persistent user data by circumventing safeguards. In 2021, TikTok will pay $92 million for collecting huge amounts of private information and user data and sending it to China.
Carr's words help call attention to TikTok's answers to previous concerns about how the app maker handles user data Donald Trump wanted ByteDance to sell TikTok to a US partner.
Both the App Store and the Play Store removed apps for harvesting user data if they failed to live up to their standards, according to the Commissioner. All apps on the play store have to comply with the policies of the company. We take appropriate action when we determine an app is in violation.
TikTok was the biggest app removed from both platforms.
The leaked audio was used to make the report. The employee said that everything is seen in China. A colleague was told by another employee that he got his instructions from Beijing. The company told Congress that the U.S. offices have final say on what happens to Americans' data. The day after the original June 17 report, TikTok announced it had moved its American user data to U.S. based server.
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