When the pandemic forced the world into isolation two years ago, everyone from teenagers attending class on Zoom to attorneys trying to find new ways to attract clients resorted to a flashy, relatively new social media platform: TikTok. 

Ever since then, the short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese company ByteDance has had to face the brunt of many U.S. officials, from former U.S. President Donald Trump to more recently Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Brendan Carr. In late June, Carr sent a letter to Apple and Google’s CEOs, cautioning them of TikTok’s alleged attempts to reroute U.S. consumer data to China. He added that such a practice makes the app unfit for the companies’ app store privacy compliance.

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