

So, in his letter to Apple’s CEO- Tim Cook and Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai, Brendan said: "As you know TikTok is an app that is available to millions of Americans through your app stores, and it collects vast troves of sensitive data about those US users." In the letter written by Carr to Apple and Google, he stated clearly that TikTok "harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show and are being accessed in Beijing". The move has been taken because of TikTok’s pattern of surreptitious data practices, says the report. TikTok to discontinue from App Store and Play Store in the USA as Brendan Carr, who is the head of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has requested the tech giants- Apple and Google to remove the Chinese short-video making platform from their respective stores.
