Jun 30, 2022 07:15 AM
American user data was repeatedly accessed in China
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pra...c-response
EXCERPTS: : An FCC commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove popular video platform TikTok from app stores days after a BuzzFeed News report showed how the company’s China-based employees repeatedly accessed data of American users despite the TikTok’s repeated denials over the years.
“It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data,” Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote in his letter to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, the CEOs of Apple and Google, respectively. “TikTok is not just another video app,” he added. “That’s the sheep’s clothing.”
[...] The US isn’t the only country that has concerns about the Chinese government’s access to TikTok’s data. In 2020, India, a country with more than 700 million internet users and one of TikTok’s largest markets at the time, banned the app citing the privacy of Indian users... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pra...c-response
EXCERPTS: : An FCC commissioner has asked Apple and Google to remove popular video platform TikTok from app stores days after a BuzzFeed News report showed how the company’s China-based employees repeatedly accessed data of American users despite the TikTok’s repeated denials over the years.
“It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data,” Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote in his letter to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, the CEOs of Apple and Google, respectively. “TikTok is not just another video app,” he added. “That’s the sheep’s clothing.”
[...] The US isn’t the only country that has concerns about the Chinese government’s access to TikTok’s data. In 2020, India, a country with more than 700 million internet users and one of TikTok’s largest markets at the time, banned the app citing the privacy of Indian users... (MORE - missing details)