Democrat Senator Urges Apple And Google To Ban TikTok From App Stores

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) urged Apple Tim Cook, CEO Google Sundar Pichai, CEO, to step down TikTok from the companies’ app stores over national security concerns.

TikTok owner TikDance, a Beijing-based company, was accused of having close ties to ByteDance. Chinese Communist Party. Bennet is the latest of several Republican and Democratic officials to express opposition to the social media platform’s presence in the United States; he warned the technology executives that Chinese law obligates ByteDance to “support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work.”

“These obvious risks render TikTok, in its current form, an unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States,” Bennet wrote in Letter. “No company subject to CCP dictates should have the power to accumulate such extensive data on the American people or curate content to nearly a third of our population. Given these risks, I urge you to remove TikTok from your respective app stores immediately.”

Bennet also cited Report Forbes stated that ByteDance wanted to track the locations of certain American citizens. The company initially established an internal audit and risk division to investigate misconduct by current and former employees. However, the team allegedly intended to gather data about the location at least one American who was not employed by ByteDance.

“TikTok’s prevalence in our country also allows it to amass extensive data on the American people, including device information, search and viewing history, message content, IP addresses, faceprints, and voiceprints,” Bennet kept going. “Independent security researchers discovered that TikTok also had the capacity to engage in ‘keylogging,’ allowing it to monitor Americans’ keystrokes and inputs on third-party web browsers opened in the app, such as Apple’s Safari and Google Chrome.”

This letter follows President Joe Biden’s. Signed TikTok is now banned from all federal devices. The platform was previously blocked from devices owned by the federal government in several states including North Dakota and Alabama.

TikTok is a tool that allows you to take pictures and share them with others. Unsurpassed Google and its competitors were the first to create vertical video formats, which have been used by many other firms since. You are being sought to emulate. Bennet stated that the average American spends over 80 minutes per day using the app. This is more than the time spent on Instagram and Facebook combined.

Shou Zi Chew, TikTok CEO, is scheduled for Testify Before the House Energy and Commerce Committee members next month. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-WA, stated in a Statement The firm has “knowingly allowed the ability for the Chinese Communist Party to access American user data.”

State and federal officials are becoming more cautious about Chinese companies. The Biden administration Investigated Chinese telecommunications firm Huawei over concerns that cell towers in the United States equipped with the company’s devices were transmitting data on nearby military facilities to the Chinese Communist Party. The final rule Published The Federal Communications Commission also prohibited Huawei, ZTE and Hikvision from importing or selling technology that could pose a threat to national security last year. The new rule, however, does not apply to technology currently within the nation’s borders.

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