As Calls to Ban TikTok Grow Louder, Here’s A History of National Pulse Scoops About the CCP-Linked App.

7/4/22
 
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from National Pulse,
7/1/22:

As new calls to ban China-owned TikTok from American app stores emerge from the Federal Communications Commission, the old reasons to ban the app still hold true.

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr recently called on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their respective app stores, citing national security and data privacy concerns. Carr described TikTok’s parent company ByteDance as “beholden” to the Chinese government in his letter, noting that, as a result, the app is “required by law to comply with [Chinese government] surveillance demands.”

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