Security News > 2020 > September > US Bans WeChat, TikTok Citing Privacy, National Security
The U.S. will ban the downloads of the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat on Sunday, with a total ban on the use of the latter, citing national security and data privacy concerns.
Some security experts have raised concerns that ByteDance Ltd., the Chinese company that owns TikTok, would maintain access to information on the 100 million TikTok users in the United States, creating a security risk.
Like most social networks, TikTok collects user data and moderates users' posts.
Republican and Democratic lawmaker concerns about TikTok include its vulnerability to censorship and misinformation campaigns, and the safety of user data and children's privacy.
The administration has provided no specific evidence that TikTok has made U.S. users' data available to the Chinese government.
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