U.S. wants Apple to ban TikTok from its App Store over Chinese data worries
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What you need to know FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written to Apple CEO Tim Cook to demand that it pulls TikTok from the App Store. Google CEO Sundar Pichai also received the same letter about the Google Play Store. TikTok is accused of allowing Chinese staff members to access the data of U.S.-based users. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr also told Google to pull TikTok from the Play Store, too. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has written Apple CEO Tim Cook to demand that TikTok is removed from its App Store over concerns about potential Chinese access to user data. In a letter that was also sent to Google`s Sundar Pichai, Carr suggested that Chinese access to U.S. user data is a national security concern, following on from a Buzfeed News report that TikTok staff in China were able to access U.S. customer data until as recently as January 2022. As you know TikTok is an app that is available to millions of Americans through your app stores, and it collects vast troves of sensit...