WASHINGTON—A federal communications regulator has requested Apple Inc. and Google to take away Chinese-owned TikTok from their app shops, citing the safety dangers posed by the info collected by the short-form video web site on American customers.
“It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data,” Federal Communications Commission member Brendan Carr wrote in a letter to Apple and Google, a unit of Alphabet Inc.
