Concerned about how the China-owned app manages the data of American users, a commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission called on the American government to outlaw social media network TikTok on Tuesday.

The comments were made in an interview with Axios, and they come as the rapidly expanding app is currently in negotiations with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United State, if it can continue operating in the United States if it is purchased by an American company from its Chinese parent company ByteDance.

One of the five FCC commissioners, Brendan Carr, requested that TikTok be banned from the CFIUS due to the company's apparent incapacity to protect the data of users in the United States.

Carr is not participating in negotiations with US authorities regarding the app, the company claimed in a statement to ABC News.

A representative for TikTok, Brooke Oberwetter, claims that 'Commissioner Carr appears to be expressing views independent of his work as an FCC commissioner' and that 'Commissioner Carr has no role in the confidential negotiations with the U.S. government relative to TikTok.'

Oberwetter continued, 'We are convinced that we are on the right track to achieving an agreement with the U.S. Government that will satisfy all fair national security concerns.

In response to ABC News' request for comment regarding Carr's assertions, the FCC did not react right away. According to a September New York Times report, the Biden administration and TikTok drafted a preliminary agreement to address national security issues raised by the app. However, challenges remain in the negotiations.

According to TikTok, American users' data is stored outside of China and that the company has never taken American content down at the request of the Chinese government. The security of user data has been questioned in recent news reports.

In June, Buzzfeed revealed that TikTok developers working in China had accessed private data on American users, including phone numbers. ByteDance wanted to utilise the app to acquire information on some users, according to a Forbes report from last month.