Brendan Carr, commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), wrote a letter to the CEOs of both companies, warning them that the hugely popular video sharing application did not comply with the requirements of their application store policies. “TikTok is not what you see on the surface. It ‘s not just an app for sharing funny videos or memes. This is sheep’ s clothing,” Carr said in the letter. “At its core, TikTok functions as an advanced surveillance tool that gathers large amounts of personal and sensitive data.” “It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data collection combined with Beijing’s apparently uncontrolled access to this sensitive data.” TikTok is not just another video application.This is the sheep’s garment. It collects fragments of sensitive data that according to new reports are accessed in Beijing. I have called a href = “& pic.twitter.com/Le01fBpNjn – @ BrendanCarrFCC In the letter, Carr lists several cases where the company violates various data privacy and security laws around the world. It asks Google and Apple to remove the ability to use the application on their phones. If they refuse to do so by July 8, he asks them for an answer, explaining “the basis for your company’s conclusion that secret access to private and sensitive US user data by people in Beijing, combined with the pattern of misleading performances and behavior of TikTok, does not violate any of your App Store policies. “ The letter comes after US news agency Buzzfeed reported last week that entities in mainland China have repeatedly accessed data on US users. TikTok then announced that it planned to “delete private US user data from our data centers and fully rotate Oracle cloud servers located in the US,” the company said.
“Unlimited access” to data
John Zabiuk, president of the cybersecurity program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, says moving to a server installation in the United States may seem like an easy solution, but it does not address the root of the problem. “The problem is who still has access to this data? It’s still TikTok,” he told CBC in an interview, adding that if the company had access to the data, it was safe to assume the Chinese government had it. “It’s an extremely dangerous application,” he said. “It occupies so much personal information about users and data is stored on many occasions in mainland China, where the government has unrestricted access.” This is not the first time the company has come under fire in the United States for its relationship with the Chinese government. Former United States President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the company, even trying to ban the company through an executive order. CLOCKS Trump seeks to ban TikTok and WeChat in US:
Trump’s ban on TikTok and WeChat on the moon
China-based ByteDance wants to sign a deal with Oracle and Walmart, but the deal may fall short of what US President Donald Trump has asked the company to do. This led to talks between US companies, such as Oracle, Microsoft and even Walmart, over the purchase of the company, but these talks collapsed after legal challenges and then the plan was put on the shelf by the incoming Biden government. which ordered a national security review of the application. in progress. Just last week, six Republican senators asked the Treasury Department for information on how this review is progressing. Zabiuk says it certainly seems that the application violates the rules of Google and Apple for applications due to the way it is built. “They can make changes to the code and every time you start the application … it can do different things,” he said. If the push is successful, it will not even be the first time TikTok has been banned by a country. India banned the application in 2020, for reasons of national security.
