Dem Senator: Remove TikTok From US App Stores

ABC News reports:

Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO, sent a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Thursday calling on their companies to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, citing concerns about how TikTok handles the data of American users.

“Like most social media networks, TikTok collects vast and sophisticated data from its users,” Bennet said. “Unlike most social media networks, TikTok poses a unique concern.”

“TikTok’s vast influence and aggressive data collection pose a specific threat to U.S. national security because of its parent company’s obligations under Chinese law,” Bennet added.

Read the full article. TikTok has 100 million US users.

Sen. Michael Bennet, Democrat of Colorado, called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores. No company subject to “Chinese Communist Party dictates should have the power to accumulate such extensive data on the American people,” he wrote. https://t.co/w9qadU5zow

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