Members of the U.S. House of Representatives issued letters to Apple and Google questioning their policies “regarding TikTok and other … apps that could pose privacy threats,” MediaPost reports. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Reps. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., asked if the company was planning to remove TikTok and other harmful applications from its Play Store. Apple CEO Tim Cook received a similar letter. “Google’s failure to implement rigorous application scrutiny makes Americans vulnerable to foreign surveillance, particularly from adversarial actors like China,” they wrote in the letter.
US lawmakers ask Google, Apple if they plan to ban TikTok
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