[WASHINGTON] President Donald Trump is days away from announcing strong action against the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok to protect US national security, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday. Read more at The Business Times.
Mr Pompeo said the data that companies like TikTok are gleaning about Americans"could be their facial recognition pattern; it could be information about their residence, their phone numbers, their friends, who they're connected to."
The secretary recalled that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States - which he chairs -is reviewing TikTok, which is especially popular with young audiences who create and watch its short-form videos and has an estimated one billion users worldwide. "I will say publicly that the entire committee agrees that TikTok cannot stay in the current format because it risks sending back information on 100 million Americans," Mr Mnuchin said Sunday on ABC.
"We agree there needs to be a change - force a sale or block the app. Everybody agrees it can't exist as it does," Mr Mnuchin said.
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