Liberty Nation News By: Andrew Moran
An FCC member is urging Big Tech to put the kibosh on TikTok.
Will the US government clamp down on the Chinese-owned TikTok? A Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has requested Apple and Google remove the social media outlets from their mobile app stores, citing growing data and privacy concerns. But now that the video-sharing app has become one of the largest social networks in the world, it might be a challenge for Big Tech to acquiesce to one regulator’s request.
‘Sheep’s Clothing’
Brendan Carr, a commissioner on the FCC, shared a letter he penned to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook on Twitter. The June 24 communication alluded to reports that showed the app was not compliant with two of the companies’ app store policies.
Carr, who was nominated by former President Donald Trump in 2018 for a five-year term, identified various examples of the ByteDance-owned app violating multiple privacy and data security laws at home and abroad. He also listed a broad array of US businesses and branches of the federal government that have prohibited TikTok, including the Department of Homeland Security, Wells Fargo, and the military.
