Bytedance's decision is due to an FCC commissioner in the United States calling on both Apple and Google to remove TikTok from the app stores.
Late last month, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr wrote a two-page open letter to Apple and Google. In the letter, he described it as a “data-gathering tool for the Chinese authorities”.report revealed that ByteDance officials in Beijing have repeatedly accessed the sensitive data that TikTok has collected from Americans after those U.S. users downloaded the app through your app stores.
“Everything is seen in China,” a TikTok official said in the recordings, despite the fact that TikTok has repeatedly represented that the data it gathers about Americans is stored in the United States…” wrote Carr., TikTok collects information like search and browsing histories, keystroke patterns, and biometric identifiers—including faceprints and voiceprints.
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