Brendan Carr, the commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing national security concerns. “At its core, TikTok functions as a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data,” Carr said in the letter, which he shared in his Twitter post . Carr cited a Buzzfeed...
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