White House drops Trump-era executive orders that attempted to ban TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks.
New downloads of the wildly popular dancing app, TikTok, could be banned over the weekend along with WeChat, the president warned.WASHINGTON -- The White House dropped Trump-era executive orders intended to ban the popular apps TikTok and WeChat and will conduct its own review aimed at identifying national security risks with software applications tied to China, officials said Wednesday.
The Biden administration's move reflects ongoing concern that Americans’ personal data could be exposed by popular apps tied to China, a chief U.S. economic and political rival. The White House and Congress have both taken action to address Beijing’s technological advancement. The new executive order should lead to a framework for protecting Americans' data from China, rather than targeting specific companies, and could pressure Congress to enact a data-security law in the years ahead, said Paul Triolo, a tech policy expert at the Eurasia Group consultancy.
Last year, the Trump administration brokered a deal that would have had U.S. corporations Oracle and Walmart take a large stake in the app on national security grounds. Oracle didn't returned requests for comment on Wednesday. Walmart declined to comment.
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