FCC Commissioner Wants TikTok Removed From App Stores

A top FCC official wants Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores.

In a letter posted to Twitter, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr claimed the popular video app is secretly harvesting “sensitive data” that is “being accessed in Beijing”.

TikTok is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance and has faced heavy scrutiny from U.S. regulators.

TikTok should be banned from Apple, Google stores over data concerns: FCC commissioner https://t.co/MXfUNbWT14 pic.twitter.com/hHNghHIoax

— New York Post (@nypost) June 28, 2022