Friday, 18 September 2020

U.S. bans TikTok, WeChat downloads after Sunday

The deal between Oracle and TikTok parent ByteDance that was announced on Wednesday was not enough to convince the Trump administration that TikTok won't steal user data belonging to its American users. As a result, that U.S. downloads of the short-form video app will be banned after Sunday night. Also banned after Sunday will be U.S. downloads of WeChat, China's extremely popular Swiss Army Knife of an app with over one billion people in China using it as a browser, and a messaging app. It also allows subscribers to shop online and to make online payments. Such payments and the transferring ...

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