Sec. of State Mike Pompeo said that the U.S. would "certainly look at" banning Chinese social media apps including short-form video app TikTok over national security and privacy concerns.
"With respect to Chinese apps on people's cell phones, I can assure you the United States will get this one right too," Pompeo said in an interview on Monday's episode of Fox News' "I don't want to get out in front of the president, but it's something we're looking at." Pompeo added that people should only download TikTok "if you want your private information in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party."
The news comes as TikTok increasingly looks to distance itself from its parent company Beijing-based ByteDance. Last week, over national security and privacy concerns. The ban came as a huge blow to TikTok as India was one of it fastest growing and most profitable markets. There have also been reports that Australia's government was looking at a ban.
, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Google and Telegram all said they were suspending co-operation with Hong Kong's police in relation to requests for user information.
Will certainly look at it due to security and privacy concerns-- Terms & Conditions cannot save us – we need tech with “privacy by design” like iotex_io to guarantee our privacy
Lol. As if the US’s skirts are all that clean either...
Yeah they are targeting TikTok because a bunch of kids made them look like total fools!! These are things dictators do!!
If he forces Twitter to revive VINE properly, we'll be fine.
That’s... actually smart. Apps like TikTok are apparently super malware, designed to collect as much data as possible. Someone should shut them down. But it won’t happen. They’ll be paid off. It’s the tRUmp admin, remember. Corrupt from top to bottom.
Free country
Bruh
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