[Liam-]

I don’t actually think he has the power to ban it?

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Liam-

I don’t actually think he has the power to ban it?

He could theoretically make an executive order on the grounds of national security but there are rumours that it's mostly hot air aimed at essentially forcing the company to fully sell the Western branch of it to a US-based company.

[arista]

President Trump gives Microsoft 45 days to buy the USA TikTok.

[Denver]

Apparently the UK has given permission for a Tik Tok HQ in London which will likely anger Trump

[arista]

[TikTok 'will open a London HQ after move is approved by ministers'
risking major row with Donald Trump over Chinese app]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ald-Trump.html

[user104658]

In theory the company could make a fortune here; if they sell the entire company to Microsoft they can then immediately re-launch a clone in China, and the CCP will only allow that version since they're against western Social Media use within China. Patents etc. aren't even an issue because the Chinese gov doesn't give a **** about Chinese companies cloning western stuff for domestic use.

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by Denver

Apparently the UK has given permission for a Tik Tok HQ in London which will likely anger Trump

Wonderful news .. if correct


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[arista]

[Captain.Remy]

[arista]

[Denver]

Reports are sayijg Microsoft are close to buying the whole of Tik Tok for £30b after they decided they wanted all global control

[arista]

[bots]

They have 45 days before they ar stuffed

[arista]

TikTok boss quits as Trump's ban looms
[TikTok chief executive Kevin Mayer
has quit after just two months in the
job ahead of an impending ban by
US President Donald Trump.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53927989

[The Chinese-owned firm has been
accused of being a threat to US national security
by the Trump administration.
Mr Mayer joined TikTok in June after leaving his
role as Disney's head of streaming services.]



Getting out before it sinks

[arista]

[arista]

[arista]

4 days to go.

[arista]

[Oracle wins bid to buy TikTok's US operation
after the Chinese app
rejected Microsoft - ahead of Trump's deadline]

One day to go.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...perations.html

[user104658]

Last month, Trump threw his support behind Oracle buying TikTok and called them a 'great company'.

'I think that Oracle would be certainly somebody that could handle it,' he said

Trump supporter Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle Corporation in 1977 with Bob Miner and Ed Oates. It now has 136,000 employees.

In February 2020, Ellison hosted a Trump fundraiser at his Rancho Mirage home where tickets cost up to $250,000 to attend.

Sigh.

[Tom4784]

Oh look, another business deal, prompted by the government that benefits Trump.

[ArgyESC]

TiK ToK, on the clock, but the party don't stop.

[arista]

[arista]

Trump has Now agreed the USA Tik Tok deal.


Bought by Oracle & Walmart.

[James]

US regulator wants TikTok banned from Apple and Google app stores over spying concerns

A top official at the US communications regulator is urging Apple and Google to kick TikTok out of their app stores over data security concerns.

By Euronews with Reuters • Updated: 30/06/2022 - 17:32


Brendan Carr, a Republican member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has written a letter to the chief executives of both companies saying that the wildly popular video-sharing app has collected vast troves of sensitive data about US users that could be accessed by staff at ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent.

Carr tweeted details of the letter, dated June 24 and sent on FCC letterhead.




"TikTok is not just another video app. That's the sheep's clothing," Carr said on Twitter. "It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing".

Carr said this made TikTok non-compliant with Apple's and Google's app store policies, and he asked the companies to either remove it from their app stores by July 8 or explain to him why they did not plan to do so.


A TikTok spokeswoman said the company's engineers in locations outside of the United States, including China, can be granted access to US user data "on an as-needed basis" and under "strict controls."

Google declined to comment on Carr's letter, while Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.



TikTok has in recent years been under regulatory scrutiny over its collection of US personal data.

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reviews deals by foreign acquirers for potential national security risks, ordered ByteDance in 2020 to divest TikTok because of fears that US user data could be passed on to China's communist government.

Former US president Donald Trump repeatedly lashed out at the company and even tried to ban TikTok via executive order, but the move faced a series of legal challenges and was ultimately revoked by his successor Joe Biden.

Carr’s letter cited a recent BuzzFeed News report, according to which recordings of TikTok employee statements showed engineers in mainland China had repeatedly accessed non-public data on US users.

"It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing's apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data," Carr's letter read.

TikTok announced earlier this month that it plans "to delete US users' private data from our own data centres and fully pivot to Oracle cloud servers located in the US".


"What we're seeing here from Commissioner Carr is a suggestion that at least some parts of the US government don't think that this is enough," Richard Sofield, a national security partner at law firm Vinson & Elkins LLP, said of TikTok's partnership with Oracle.

Carr's request is unusual given that the FCC does not have clear jurisdiction over the content of app stores.

The FCC usually regulates the national security space through its authority to grant certain communications licenses to companies.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/0...pying-concerns

It was reported a while ago that they could read people's clipboards on their devices.

[bots]

i've never installed tik tok, seems that was wise