{"id":211769,"date":"2023-02-03T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T13:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=270154"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:04:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:04:19","slug":"us-senator-asks-google-apple-block-tiktok-app-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/us-senator-asks-google-apple-block-tiktok-app-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok Ban in the US? Senator Demands Google and Apple Block the App!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TikTok<\/strong>, one of the most widely used apps in the world, could be in danger in the United States. This week, Democratic Party Senator Michael Bennet asked tech giants Apple<\/strong> and Google <\/strong>to remove the short video app from their app stores (App Store<\/strong> and Play Store<\/strong>), citing national security concerns<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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In a petition that follows recent investigations of TikTok by the US Congress, the US Senate Intelligence Committee member called TikTok an “unacceptable threat to the national security of the United States<\/strong>“. He also cites the suspicions that the country’s government and more than half of its states wielded to block the app on both official networks and devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a letter echoed by Forbes<\/strong><\/a>, Bennet addresses the CEOs of Apple and Google – Tim Cook<\/strong> and Sundar Pichai<\/strong>, respectively – highlighting fears that the Chinese government may force TikTok or ByteDance<\/strong>, its parent company, to hand over the private data in the app of U.S. citizens<\/strong>, making use of its national security laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laws that, according to Bennet, could force companies residing in China to “cooperate with state intelligence efforts,” as well as allow the Chinese government access to company resources<\/strong>. Both ByteDance’s founder, Zhang Yiming<\/strong><\/a>, and its current CEO, Shou Zi Chew<\/strong>, are Chinese, and the company has offices in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He also cites his concern about TikTok being able to alter or influence what U.S. users can see on the app<\/strong> thanks to its algorithm, something that could have serious implications related to the American country’s democracy and foreign policy under its laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We must accept the very real possibility that China could force TikTok, through ByteDance, to use its influence to promote the interests of the Chinese government<\/strong>,” Bennet commented, “for example, by modifying its algorithm to feature U.S. content that undermines U.S. democratic institutions or silences criticism of China’s management of Hong Kong, Taiwan or ethnic minorities.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Although so far there is no evidence that there has been any attempt<\/strong> by TikTok to manipulate or spy on US users, US security experts have warned that this could be a possibility. For this reason, Shou Zi Chew will testify in March<\/a><\/strong> before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, who will have to explain what data security measures the company carries out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic Party Senator Michael Bennett has asked Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores on national security grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":211770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-211769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322322,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211769\/revisions\/322322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211769"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=211769"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=211769"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=211769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}