BREAKING: US plans to block TikTok and WeChat downloads, Commerce Sec. Ross says, asserting national security and data privacy concerns.
The statement gives TikTok a reprieve as it continues to negotiate a deal in hopes of staving off the full ban.from President Donald Trump in early August in which Trump said the apps posed a threat to national security.
The new deadline adds more tension to the already dramatic negotiations currently happening between TikTok's parent company ByteDance and U.S. technology company Oracle. The two companies have been in talks about a deal to mollify the president's concerns.On Thursday, the two companies reached an agreement on a deal that would stop short of Trump's demand that TikTok be sold to a U.S. company. Instead, TikTok would become a global company based in the U.S.
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