Biden revokes Trump executive order on TikTok, WeChat
US President Joe Biden has reportedly revoked bans imposed by former President Donald Trump on Chinese social media and messaging apps TikTok and WeChat.
Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order requiring consumer data protections for foreign apps.
According to a White House fact sheet, the Commerce Department will be required to review apps “involving software applications that are designed, developed, manufactured, or supplied by persons that are owned or controlled by, or subject to the jurisdiction of a foreign adversary, including the People’s Republic of China, that may present an undue or unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States and the American people.”
The government, therefore, needs to identify apps that “may present a heightened risk when the transactions involve applications that are owned, controlled, or managed by persons that support foreign adversary military or intelligence activities, or are involved in malicious cyber activities, or involve applications that collect sensitive personal data.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said in February that the administration was “comprehensively evaluating” risks to US data including from TikTok.
During his tenure, Trump kept alleging the apps posed a threat to national security, an allegation denied by the Chineses companies.
TikTok said it was “shocked by the recent Executive Order, which was issued without any due process.”
The company said in a statement that it spent nearly a year trying to engage in "good faith" with Washington to address its concerns.
The US has long been using national security concerns as an excuse to impose a ban on Chinese communication apps and technologies.
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