AMMAN — It is unlikely that TikTok’s app will
disappear as a social media platform, despite calls by the FCC commissioner on Android
and Apple to remove it from their app stores, Jordanian cybersecurity expert
Majdi Al-Qabaleen said, according to Khabrni News.
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In the US, Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan
Carr called on both Apple and Google to delete TikTok from their respective app
stores, on grounds that the video-sharing app is a “sophisticated surveillance
tool” for the Chinese government.
Carr gave both companies until July 8 to respond, but it was
not immediately clear what measures FCC will undertake if both firms did not
comply.
Qabaleen said the information is not definite. But he noted
that there are several researches on the data privacy and reverse engineering
of TikTok, which pointed to the app being a spy tool, especially since it uses
advanced algorithms to analyze users' data.
He said he did not believe that the app will be deleted at
the moment. He explained that if it were to be deleted, it would not be
uninstalled from the users’ phones who already have it installed.
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