A U.S. telecom authority official said yesterday that it has requested IT giants Apple and Google to remove the video sharing app "TikTok" operated by a Chinese company from the smartphone app store.
The reason for requesting deletion is that the personal information of users may be leaked to China.
Brendan Carr, a member of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), a US telecommunications authority, posted a letter on his Twitter account to the CEOs of US IT giants Apple and Google.
In it, Kerr asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from the app store, saying that "TikTok is required by Chinese law to comply with government oversight requests."
About this issue, the American media reported in the middle of this month that Chinese engineers frequently access the data of American users of TikTok.
The operator of TikTok has announced that it will move data in the United States to the servers of American software giant Oracle, but there have been growing national security concerns in the United States.
If the U.S. Telecom Authority's car commissioner does not respond to the request for removal, he is asking him to explain the reason by the 8th of next month, and it will be interesting to see what the major IT companies will do.