Microsoft In Talks To Buy Teen Fave TikTok As Trump Ramps Up Pressure

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Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the hugely popular Chinese-owned app, just as the Trump administration considers taking action against the app — including banning it.

TikTok has been under fire in Washington, as the Trump administration and some Democrats in Congress have been raising national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.toggle captionTikTok has been under fire in Washington, as the Trump administration and some Democrats in Congress have been raising national security concerns about the Chinese-owned app.Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

TikTok has also come under increasing scrutiny in Washington because it is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company worth $100 billion. For its part, TikTok says it has never turned over any data to the Chinese Community Party, nor have Chinese officials ever asked for the data.the data it collects on users, including what messages are exchanged, what videos are watched on the app, online browsing history and access to the contacts on a user's phone. Technology experts say that level of data collection is in line with other smartphone apps.

TikTok's corporate owner is based in Beijing, but the company has long said it stores its data in Virginia. Its backup servers are in Singapore, and it says Chinese officials do not have access to them.like Black Lives Matter and of censoring content to please the Chinese Communist Party.

 

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You cover the data privacy issues, but how can you write an article about this and not talk about TikTok and the Trump rally in Oklahoma as the motivating factor for this?

Who gives a shit they’ll just run it into the ground like mixer and Xbox. Microsoft is literally so pea brained.

just delete the trash app already

no please just delete that cursed app

It's a front for a terrorist group it collects your info

Tik tok and Zoom are both chinese spyware. Dont use them.

“Free Market” 🤮

Arent they appearing before congress cuz they got a monopoly

Bill Gates conspiracy theories in 3...2...1...and let ‘em fly MAGA scientists

Donnie just doesn’t liked being punked by 14 yo kids, only reason he wanted it banned.

He’s still steamed about those sarahcpr videos.

Chinese owned app is going Microsoft.

Still won't use it.

i can't believe such a thing

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