FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr called on the U.S. government to ban TikTok outright on Tuesday. The Chinese-owned app is a national security threat exposing Americans' data.
Gettr CEO Jason Miller argues that China and TikTok have the upper hand in the inherent cyberconflict with the U.S.to protect the private data of American citizens, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Brendan Carr said Tuesday.
Carr, one of the five commissioners who lead the FCC, argued in an interview with Axios that there is no way to have "sufficient confidence" that Americans' data on the app is not being sent back to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party . TikTok is owned by the Chinese tech giant, ByteDance, and Chinese law mandates that companies share their data with the CCP upon request.
TikTok is currently litigating with the U.S. Council on Foreign Investment to determine whether it is possible to divest the app from ByteDance and allow it to operate in the U.S., something former President Donald Trump pursued before leaving office.The video-sharing app TikTok is owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, and Chinese law mandates companies share their data with the Chinese Communist Party upon request. President Xi Jinping, shown, is head of the CCP.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr testifies during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on March 31, 2022. "I don’t believe there is a path forward for anything other than a ban," he told Axios, adding that there isn't "a world in which you could come up with sufficient protection on the data that you could have sufficient confidence that it’s not finding its way back into the hands of the CCP."
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