Tik Tok is here to stay. This morning, Biden rescinded Trump’s executive orders that sought to effectively ban the Chinese-owned video app, instead replacing it with new guidelines for assessing apps' potential risks to U.S. data.
, and the courtroom battle has since dragged into the Biden administration.
A senior Biden administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the order “is going to enable us to take strong steps to protect sensitive data of Americans from collection and utilization of foreign adversaries including China through connected software applications.” A spokesperson for TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese tech giant ByteDance, declined to comment on Biden's action. A WeChat spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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