NEW: President Trump issued an order banning U.S. business transactions with TikTok's Chinese parent company in 45 days. He also signed an order restricting U.S. business with the owner of WeChat.
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"When we talk about sanctions against Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats, well, the sanctions are that no American can do business with them," Stewart Baker, the former general counsel at the National Security Agency,Now, that same sanction has been used against TikTok. In the order, the White House says TikTok captures vast swaths of information from its users, including location data and Internet search history, data the administration fears could be shared with authorities in Beijing.
TikTok has downplayed its ties to Beijing, saying data it captures on U.S. users is stored mostly in Virginia. Officials at TikTok also insist the company has never turned over any data to Chinese authorities, despite the county's broad powers to request such data from private companies.an independent security review of TikTok revealed that the app is harvesting data, including the facial profiles of American users, and sending it to Chinese servers.has confirmedFor Microsoft, a $1.
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