Posted on 06/29/2022 12:49:08 PM PDT by conservative98
The FCC commissioner has called on the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing new reports suggesting the video app popular among American young people is harvesting "swaths of sensitive data" that is being accessed by Beijing on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
In a letter dated June 24, Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, warned Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet Inc. and Google LLC CEO Sundar Pichai of "an alarming new report" that shed fresh light on "serious national security threats posed by TikTok."
"TikTok is not what it appears to be on the surface. It is not just an app for sharing funning videos or memes. That’s the sheep’s clothing," Carr wrote. "At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data."
TikTok, available to millions of Americans through Apple and Google online stores, is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, an organization that Carr asserts is "behold to the Communist Party of China and required by Chinese law to comply with the PRC’s surveillance demands."
Though it’s already well known that TikTok collects vast troves of sensitive data from its U.S. users, Carr pointed to a new report by BuzzFeed News citing leaked recordings that reveal ByteDance officials in Beijing have repeatedly accessed the data collected from Americans who downloaded TikTok from Apple and Google app stores.
The revelation contradicts previous claims from TikTok that data collected from Americans through the video app is stored on servers in the United States.
"Everything is seen in China," a TikTok official says in the recording.
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geefostabc
2 hours ago
President Trump warned us about Tic Tok a long time ago and was laughed at.
Looks like the Greatest President in American History was right again.
philkoprowski217
2 hours ago
So Trump was right. Again.
reconsurgeon
2 hours ago
Trump told you this years ago!
sgttrump
2 hours ago
Like maybe 3 years ago?!?!
Trump is out but he’s still winning! 🤣
donna180
2 hours ago
Yep. He will be back better and stronger. He is endured so much from the left and yet he still keeps going. He loves this country and will always fight for what he believes in. The left has persecuted him for years and come November and 2024 he will prevail.
Well, well, well.
Yeah. Only Google and Apple should be allowed to amass info for the Chinese.
By that logic, all liberals should be physically removed from the USA permanently
Yes. Trump warned us years ago about Tik Tok
Right now TickTock is the only platform where people can share direct from their phone videos that I know of that’s a threat to the left
Truth Social does that
Tictoc is the cess pool of social media and humanity
Inside the Beltway the Deep State China is in the crosshairs next it’s quite fashionable the new Russia will soon be China.
But I think Donald Trump had his priorities right seeing China as the greater enemy from the start.
Remove tick tokens and the national IQ will go up 17 points.
YAWNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!
In 2020, the U.S. government announced that it was considering banning the Chinese social media platform TikTok upon a request from then-U.S. president Donald Trump, who viewed the app as a national security threat.
Trump did this, Biden rescinded it.
Almost first thing Biden did.
“be removed from Apple, Google stores over ‘unacceptable national security risk’”
I think we already know Aple and Ggle are a national security risk
TikTok “challenges” are killing a hell of a lot more kids with stupidity than their fellow students are with firearms. Morons.
“serious national security threats posed by TikTok.”
What about the national security threat posed by the a-hole in the oval office?
Geeeeee, when Trump tried to do this he was Baaaaaad.
I despise these people.
Works for me.🤔
The same faces of that Tik-Tok guy and Tik Tok girl plastered all over the unfunny clickbait on YouTube is nothing short of irritating and disgusting.
The FCC commissioner has called on the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing new reports suggesting the video app popular among American young people is harvesting “swaths of sensitive data” that is being accessed by Beijing on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
What sensitive data are these teenagers keeping in their TicTok accounts? They use TicTok to take video of themselves dancing to dance routines of various songs. Not much else.
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