U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr called on Apple and Alphabet to remove TikTok from iPhone and Android app stores in the country, calling it “a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data,” Fortune reports. In a letter to the companies, Carr said TikTok collects data including browsing histories, biometric identifiers, location data, and content stored on a device and the platform should be removed from app stores over its “pattern of surreptitious data practices.”
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