![]() ![]() The order bars data hosting within the United States for WeChat, content delivery services and networks that can increase functionality and internet transit or peering services. The Commerce Department is also barring additional technical transactions with WeChat starting Sunday that will significantly reduce the usability and functionality of the app in the United States. ![]() "We expect the market to act and there will be more secure apps that will fill in these gaps that Americans can trust and that the United States government won't have to take similar actions against." "The expectation is that people will find alternative ways to do these actions," a senior official said. Over time, officials said, the lack of updates will degrade the apps' usability. We're not going to go out after the individual users," one Commerce official said. The Commerce Department will not seek to compel people in the United States to remove the apps or stop using them but will not allow updates or new downloads. The app is an essential part of daily life for many in China and boasts more than 1 billion users. WeChat is an all-in-one mobile app that combines services similar to Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram and Venmo. People walk past the headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, in Beijing. It is popular among Chinese students, ex-pats and some Americans who have personal or business relationships in China. WeChat has had an average of 19 million daily active users in the United States, analytics firm Apptopia said in early August. TikTok has 100 million users in the United States and is especially popular among younger Americans. digital networks and has called TikTok and WeChat "significant threats." The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to purge "untrusted" Chinese apps from U.S. The bans are in response to a pair of executive orders issued by Trump on Aug. 6 that gave the Commerce Department 45 days to determine what transactions to block from the apps he deemed pose a national security threat. The order will not bar transactions with WeChat-owner Tencent Holdings' other businesses, including its online gaming operations, and will not prohibit Apple, Google or others from offering TikTok or WeChat apps anywhere outside the United States. firms like Walmart and Starbucks that use WeChat's embedded "mini-app" programs to facilitate transactions and engage consumers in China, officials said. ![]() companies from doing business on WeChat outside the United States, which will be welcome news to U.S. and bar Apple Inc's app store, Alphabet Inc's Google Play and others from offering the apps on any platform "that can be reached from within the United States," a senior Commerce official told Reuters. The Commerce Department order will "de-platform" the two apps in the U.S. of a significant platform for both a voice and livelihoods." "We will continue to challenge the unjust executive order, which was enacted without due process and threatens to deprive the American people and small businesses across the U.S. "We disagree with the decision from the Commerce Department, and are disappointed that it stands to block new app downloads from Sunday and ban use of the TikTok app in the U.S. Ross said in a written statement "we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said the ban on Tik Tok and WeChat will combat China's 'malicious collection of American citizens' personal data.' (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) Commerce Department officials said they were taking the extraordinary step because of the risks the apps' data collection poses. by eliminating access to these applications and significantly reducing their functionality." The department said the actions will "protect users in the U.S. 12," Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Fox Business Network. "The basic TikTok will stay intact until Nov. 12, which gives the company additional time to see if ByteDance can reach a deal for its U.S. ban.Ĭommerce officials said they will not bar additional technical transactions for TikTok until Nov. ByteDance still needs Trump's approval to stave off a U.S. concerns about the security of its users' data. operations.īyteDance has been in talks with Oracle Corp and others to create a new company, TikTok Global, which aims to address U.S. downloads of TikTok could be still rescinded by President Donald Trump before it takes effect late Sunday as TikTok owner ByteDance races to clinch an agreement over the fate of its U.S. Commerce Department has issued an order that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, starting Sunday.Ĭommerce officials said the ban on new U.S.
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