TikTok as a spy tool? Politician calls for the end of the app!
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The US FCC Commissioner has written to Apple and Google calling on the Silicon Valley giants to axe TikTok from app stores for “its pattern of surreptitious ...Read full articlethedailybeast.com: FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Demands Google and Apple Pull TikTok From Their App Stores
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FCC asks Google, Apple to remove TikTok due to data privacy concerns at Chinese-owned company
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Apple and Google told by FCC to axe TikTok in app store over privacy concerns: The US FCC Commissioner has written to Apple and Google calling on the Silicon ...
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TikTok as a spy tool? Politician calls for the end of the app!: Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the United States ...
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