Security News > 2020 > September > Judge Halts WeChat Download Ban in US-China Tech Battle
A US judge on Sunday blocked the government's ban on WeChat downloads, hours before it was due to take effect in an ongoing technology and espionage battle between Washington and Beijing.
The Trump administration had ordered a ban on downloads of the messaging platform WeChat as well as hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok, both owned by Chinese companies.
The US Department of Commerce on Saturday announced it was postponing the ban on TikTok downloads until September 27, due to "Recent positive developments."
Trump has often claimed, without providing evidence, that TikTok and WeChat are collecting user data for Beijing.
The Trump administration has used its own "Entity list" to shut Chinese telecom giant Huawei out of the US market, in addition to the recent moves against TikTok and WeChat.
News URL
Related news
- China Possibly Hacking US “Lawful Access” Backdoor (source)
- China again claims Volt Typhoon cyber-attack crew was invented by the US to discredit it (source)
- China’s Spamouflage cranks up trolling of US Senator Rubio as election day looms (source)
- US lawmakers push DOJ to prosecute tax prep firms for leaking taxpayer data to big tech (source)
- China's Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in 'test-run' for US telecom attacks (source)
- Reminder: China-backed crews compromised 'multiple' US telcos in 'significant cyber espionage campaign' (source)
- T-Mobile US 'monitoring' China's 'industry-wide attack' amid fresh security breach fears (source)
- US space tech giant Maxar discloses employee data breach (source)
- China has utterly pwned 'thousands and thousands' of devices at US telcos (source)