Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Co., urged the CEOs of Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their mobile app stores immediately in a letter on Thursday.
to remove TikTok from their mobile app stores immediately in a letter on Thursday, citing widespread concerns that the Chinese government could access information on Americans using the app.highlights both the growing concern over TikTok's potential national security risks and the power of Apple and Google have to decide the sort of apps to which Americans can access.
Bennet told the CEOs of both firms that TikTok is unique from other social media platforms because of its China-based parent company ByteDance, which under Chinese law would be"Beijing's requirement raises the obvious risk that the Chinese Communist Party could weaponize TikTok against the United States, specifically, by forcing ByteDance to surrender Americans' sensitive data or manipulate the content Americans receive to advance China's interests," Bennet wrote.
TikTok has repeatedly sought to reassure concerned American lawmakers and officials that it does not store U.S. user data in China. It has also beenabout how it can mitigate potential national security risks while continuing to operate here.
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