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Setlist: Is TikTok just “a sophisticated surveillance tool”?

By Andy Malt and Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 4 July 2022

CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week, including Brendan Carr of the US Federal Communications Commission calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores claiming that the app is “a sophisticated surveillance tool that harvests extensive amounts of personal and sensitive data” that it then hands over to the Chinese government, plus a round-up of the week’s Kanye West legal news.

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• FCC Commissioner calls on Apple and Google to block TikTok
• Kanye West sued over uncleared sample on Donda 2
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