U.S. Senator Michael Bennet has issued a written demand to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company's app stores.
to the CEOs of Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their company’s app stores due to the possibility that China’s government could “weaponize” the app against the United States., addressed to Apple’s Tim Cook and Google’s Sundar Pichai, is the latest from U.S. government members that target the ByteDance-owned app. Bennet cites the massive use of the app and contrasts it with the threat that it poses, calling the company an “unacceptable threat to the national security” of the United States.
“Today, roughly 36% of Americans over the age of 12 now use TikTok, including 61% of Americans ages 12 to 34,” Bennet writes, citing astory from October. “On average, American TikTok users spend an average of 80 minutes per day on the app — more than Facebook and Instagram combined.” The senator says that this widespread use allows TikTok to collect a large amount of “sophisticated” data from those users and because it is owned by a Chinese-base company, China’s government can demand that it “support, assist, and cooperate with state intelligence work.
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