TikTok and WeChat ban in USA just in 45 days by Donald Trump

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Donald Trump's planning to ban TikTok and Wechat in the USA just in 45 days. INDIA has already banned TikTok and 47 other apps in June 2020.

TikTok may be a huge world hit: the app had virtually 700 million downloads in 2019 and was growing even quicker in 2020.

Donald Trump told reporters we are banning TikTok from the USA as Early as Possible

USA security officials have expressed that the app owned by Chinese firm ByteDance could be used to collect the personal data of Americans and all around the world.

What is TikTok?

• The platform has exploded in popularity in recent years, most with the teenager under 20.
• TikTok app is to share 15-second videos that often involve lip-synching, comedy videos, and more.
• These videos are available to both followers and strangers. By default, all accounts are public.
• TikTok also allows private messages to be sent but this facility is just a limited to "friends".
• The app is reported to have around 800 million active monthly users, most of whom are in the USA and INDIA.
• India has already blocked/banned TikTok as well as other 47 Chinese apps in June. Australia has already banned Huawei and telecom equipment-maker ZTE is also considering banning TikTok.
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Why Trump dislikes TikTok?

• Trump's dislike of TikTok goes further than just the privacy of the USA.
• In India TikTok was banned after a border skirmish with China - it was caught up in a geopolitical feud and that is what happened here in the USA too so Donald Trump's sights are set firmly on China.
• TikTok says that it doesn't keep any data in China and would never give it to China but in many ways, it doesn't matter what the Chinese say’s the fact is that TikTok is owned by a Chinese's company and it is guilt enough.
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Why is that the United States involved concerning TikTok?

• US officers and politicians have raised issues knowledge collected by ByteDance via TikTok might find yourself being passed to the Chinese government.
• TikTok operates the same however separate version of the app in China, referred to as Douyin. It says all United States user knowledge is kept within the United States, with a backup in Singapore.

1. TikTok sent United States user knowledge to China, case claims.
2. TikTok: we have a tendency to aren't 'under the thumb' of China.

• This week, TikTok told users and regulators it might observe a high level of transparency, together with permitting reviews of its algorithms.
• "We are not in a political or we have some problem with politics, we have a tendency to do not settle for political advertising and also dont have not any agenda or mission of our sole objective is to stay a vivacious, dynamic platform for everybody to relish," the business executive of TikTok, Kevin Mayer, aforesaid in a very post in the week.
• "TikTok has become the most recent target because TikTok app is made by china and people around the world blaming china for corona virus, however, we have a tendency to aren't the enemy."

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