India set an “incredibly important precedent” by banning TikTok two and a half years ago, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr said as he projected a similar fate for the Chinese giant ByteDance app in the U.S.
Carr warned that TikTok “operates as a sophisticated surveillance tool” and told the Indian daily Economic Times that banning the social app is a “natural next step in our efforts to secure communication network.”
The senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission said he is worried that China could use sensitive and non-public data gleaned from TikTok for “blackmail, espionage, foreign influence campaigns and surveillance.”
“We need to follow India’s lead more broadly to weed out other nefarious apps as well,” he said.
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