The report cited leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok (owned by ByteDance) meetings, engineers in China had access to US data between September 2021 and January 2022. His letter further states: 'TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance - an organisation that is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by the Chinese law to comply with PRC's surveillance demands.”īuzzFeed News also reported last week that the China-based employees of internet giant ByteDance have repeatedly accessed data about US TikTok users. 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.' You can download the APK file of the app from multiple websites and install it on your device.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'. While the Play Store and App Store have banned the app, you can still download the app from third-party sites on Android. Can you still download it from third-party sites? The ban has so far been implemented only on the distribution of the app via official sources. No, you can still use TikTok if you have the app pre-installed on your device. Is using TikTok a criminal offence in India now? The Supreme Court filing stated that TikTok's owner Bytedance approved that it found a 'very minuscule' amount of content on the platform that was found to be obscene or inappropriate. The ban has been issued as it found that the app encouraged child pornography and can lead sexual predators to attack children via the platform. The court has issued a directive that asks the government of India to issue a ban on TikTok. The original complaint was filed in the Supreme Court, which was diverted to a state court last week.

The Indian government was asked by the state court to comply with the order and issue a request to both Apple and Google to ban the app from their ecosystems.

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