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US senator urges Apple, Google to remove TikTok from App Store because of national security risk


TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, should be removed from app stores run by Apple Inc and Alphabet’s Google because the short-video social media app poses a national security risk, Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat on the intelligence committee, said in a dated letter. Thursday.

The app, which Congress has banned on federal government devices, has come under growing criticism over concerns that the Chinese government could use it to collect data on Americans or advance Chinese interests. Country.

“No company governed by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) has the authority to collect such extensive data on the American people or curate content for nearly a third of our population,” said Bennet. write in a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Apple CEO Tim Cook.

“With these risks, I urge you to remove TikTok from your respective app stores immediately,” he wrote.

Prior to Bennet’s letter, Republicans had largely led the charge over TikTok and national security concerns, although Democratic Senator Dick Durbin had previously urged Americans to stop using the app. this use.

In the House, which is currently in Republican hands, the Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a vote this month on a bill to block the use of TikTok in the United States, the committee confirmed.

In 2020, then-President Donald Trump tried to block new users from downloading TikTok and ban other transactions that would effectively prevent TikTok usage in the United States, but the move was rejected by a court. cancel.

For its part, the company says the Chinese government cannot access the personal data of US citizens or manipulate the app’s content.

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew will appear before the US House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee in March.

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