An official at the US Federal Communications Commission said they asked Apple and Google να αφαιρέσουν την εφαρμογή TikTok από τα app stores τους λόγω ανησυχιών σχετικά με την better safety of the data. CNBC reports:
The wildly popular short video app owned by Chinese company ByteDance has come under scrutiny for the first time from the US under the Presidency of Donald Trump. Brendan Carr, one of the FCC commissioners, shared via Twitter a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.
The letter featured references that make the TikTok app non-compliant with the two companies' policies on app store their.
"TikTok is not what it seems. It's not just an application for sharing funny videos or memes. He is wearing the sheep's clothing ", the letter states.
"At its core, TikTok functions as an advanced surveillance tool that gathers large amounts of personal and sensitive data."
Carr's June 24 letter to the FCC also states that if Apple and Alphabet do not remove TikTok from their app stores, they will have until July 8 to comment.
The explanations should be "the basis for your company's conclusion that the secret access of private and sensitive US user data by individuals located in Beijing, combined with TikTok's pattern of misleading representation and behavior, does not violate any of the policies of your app store ”.
A TikTok spokesman told BuzzFeed News:
“We know that we are among the most security-controlled platforms, and we aim to remove any doubt about the security of US user data. That's why we hire experts and constantly work to validate our security standards. We bring in trusted, independent third parties to test our defenses."
The proverb says: ours are figs and are not heard while theirs are nuts and thunder.
In this case, when everything is collected by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., everything is fine, while when the Chinese collect it, ... boiling