The accusation is that American data is being processed by China
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WASHINGTON, March 15 (Portal) The Biden administration has demanded that TikTok’s Chinese owners divest their stakes in the popular video app or face a possible US ban, the company told Portal on Wednesday.
The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent moves by US officials and lawmakers that have sparked fears that US TikTok user data could be leaked to the Chinese government. TikTok, owned by ByteDance, has over 100 million users in the US.
It is also the first time under Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration that TikTok has been threatened with a possible ban. Biden’s predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, tried to ban TikTok in 2020 but was blocked by US courts.
TikTok spokeswoman Brooke Oberwetter told Portal that the company recently heard from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), headed by the US Treasury Department, which has urged the app’s Chinese owners to sell their stakes, and said , that they are failing with a Possible ban on video apps in the US.
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