FCC Commissioner Wants to Ban TikTok
Since TikTok's release in 2016, the social media platform has courted controversy in equal amounts to its increasing popularity. TikTok videos and livestreams are shared across the world, with over a billion viewers of the platform's content each month. Yet as those numbers continue to increase, so do the warnings within the United States of America that TikTok is not what it seems. The latest development on that front has even led one of the FCC's commissioners to request TikTok to be banned by both Apple and Google on iOS and Android devices.
FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, one of four members of the FCC leadership team, took the initiative to reach out to both Apple and Google regarding the status of TikTok this past week. Carr delivered a letter to both Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet and Google, requesting that TikTok be banned from each platform. Specifically, Carr says that TikTok's «patter of surreptitious data practices» breaks both platforms' own rules and thus should be removed.
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Carr was prompted to write the letter following a report release recently from BuzzFeed News. Carr describes the report as making clear TikTok developer ByteDance has «repeatedly accessed the sensitive data that TikTok has collected from Americans.» One TikTok official even went so far as to say that «Everything is seen in China,» which Carr says is directly contradictory to prior statements regarding what data is collected through TikTok's app.
TikTok poses an «unacceptable security risk» due to «Beijing's apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data,» according to Carr. His letter would go on to cite what Carr believes to be specific allegations of TikTok failing to
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