Biden Revokes TikTok, WeChat Bans and Orders Security Review

[excalibur]

Well of course he did. The CCP is his master, and the Biden Crime Family grows rich.

Are you paying attention yet, Biden voters?

President Joe Biden on Wednesday withdrew a series of Trump-era executive orders that sought to ban new downloads of WeChat and TikTok, and ordered a Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.
The administration of former President Donald Trump had attempted to block new users from downloading the apps and ban other technical transactions that Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat both said would effectively block the apps' use in the United States.

The courts blocked those orders, which never took effect.

A separate U.S. national security review of TikTok launched in late 2019 remains active and ongoing, a White House official said, declining to offer any details. The White House remains very concerned about the data risks of TikTok users, another administration official told reporters.

TikTok declined to comment. WeChat did not immediately comment.

Biden's new executive order revokes the WeChat and TikTok orders Trump issued in August, along with another in January that targeted eight other communications and financial technology software applications.

The January order directed officials to ban transactions with eight Chinese apps including Ant Group's Alipay and Tencent Holdings Ltd's QQ Wallet and WeChat pay; no bans have been issued to date.

The Trump administration contended that WeChat and TikTok posed national security concerns with the threat that the sensitive personal data of U.S. users could be collected by China’s government.

Both TikTok, which has over 100 million users in the United States, and WeChat have denied posing national security concerns.

The Trump administration had appealed judicial orders blocking the bans on TikTok and WeChat, but after Biden took office in January, the U.S. Justice Department asked to pause the appeals.

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Biden Revokes TikTok, WeChat Bans and Orders Security Review

President Joe Biden is revoking Trump-era bans on the Chinese-owned apps TikTok and WeChat on Wednesday, and instead will review software applications from foreign adversaries that could pose a risk to Americans' sensitive data, senior administration officials said.Biden,...

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[Moonglow]

Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.

Sounds reasonable and proper.

 

[DrLove]

NewsHacks have your panties in a bunch - AGAIN?

 

[Moonglow]

NewsHacks have your panties in a bunch - AGAIN?

But they are Chinese like the keyboard he uses...

 

[fncceo]

Not to worry, I use AN0M for all my social media.

 

[OldLady]

Commerce Department review of security concerns posed by those apps and others.

Sounds reasonable and proper.

Right? It might make sense to see if there is a risk before invoking a ban?

With hackers loose that can't be caught, banning an app seems to be like sticking your finger in the dike, anyway. Everything online, including the government's databases, is at risk.

That doesn't seem right somehow, that we can never catch them and bring these robbers to justice. I'm taking it as a hopeful sign that DOJ managed to retrieve the money from the Colonial pipeline attack. Are they getting a little closer?