Beginning on Sunday, the United States will ban TikTok and other apps with ties to China

On an iPhone 11 Pro max, the TikTok logo can be seen in this picture illustration taken on September 29, 2020, in Warsaw, Poland. Unless US President Donald Trump approves a last-minute agreement between US tech company Oracle and TikTok owner ByteDance, the TikTok app would be blocked from US app stores starting on Sunday. According to US authorities, the Chinese video-sharing software poses a threat to national security and may provide China access to user information.

The popular social media app TikTok and other apps with Chinese origin or connections are on the verge of being outlawed in the United States.

The decision was made in response to security worries that, in violation of Chinese law, Chinese government authorities would obtain access to the data of American customers and possibly force the corporation to turn over that data.

According to a recently introduced measure by US lawmakers, the looming ban will also affect “any social media corporation in, or under the influence of, China, Russia, and numerous other foreign countries of concern.”

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The bill specifically targets TikTok, which is controlled by ByteDance. RNN is aware that the business will continue to be the principal target until a certification that it no longer represents a security concern to the United States of America is issued.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wrote to Apple and Google earlier this year asking them to take TikTok out of their app stores. Brendan Carr, a commissioner for the FCC, charged TikTok with collecting large amounts of private information that Beijing is accessing.

TikTok, according to the Commissioner, is a “sophisticated surveillance instrument that captures enormous amounts of personal and sensitive data,” not merely an app for sharing amusing memes or videos.

However, ByteDance, the Chinese business that controls TikTok, informed the American regulator that it was independent of the Chinese government and said that the company stores the data of Americans. However, these guarantees haven’t been able to ease the anxiety.

Source: nairametrics.com