TikTok is seeking ways to distance itself from its Chinese parent company as the White House considers economic sanctions to cut off the popular app from U.S. users.
"When we talk about sanctions against Russian oligarchs and kleptocrats, well, the sanctions are that no American can do business with them," said Stewart Baker, the former general counsel at the National Security Agency."And now that same sanction might be used against TikTok."
In other words, it would not be possible to find TikTok in app stores. And updates to the app would not be sent to the tens of millions of Americans who already have it on their phones. Eventually, that would make managing the app untenable. Officials at TikTok declined to comment on any of the possible enforcement actions aimed at the company.TikTok says that its data on American users is mostly stored in the U.S. and that it has never turned over any information on U.S. users to Chinese authorities. If Beijing made a request, TikTok says, it would not cooperate.
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