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U.S. FCC Commissioner Requests Google & Apple To Ban TikTok

June 30, 2022

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Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the FTC, cited a BuzzFeed News report that China had total access to user data.

Leaked audio from TikTok internal meetings indicated that China could access all user data from September 2021 to January 2022.

The timing is important because TikTok executives testified in October 2021 that a U.S. security team decides who has access.

It was against that backdrop that Mr. Carr sent a letter to Tim Cook, CEO of Apple and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, requesting that they take action to remove TikTok from their respective app stores.

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