Tiktok and WeChat are safe in the US but still under supervision

Before 2020 ended, Tiktok’s fate in the US. UU hung up on the balance of some judicial orders and the results of the elections. He could obtain a slight pardon when Biden’s administration took over, raising the hopes that he would finally be eliminated from the hook. Part of that came true when President Biden signed a new executive order that drops the prohibitions in Tiktok, Wechat and Alipay. That said, they are still not out of hot water, since they will still be investigated in their alleged links with the Chinese government.

The root cause of Tiktok’s problems is the allegation that the bizza, the company based in Chinese who owns the popular social network, collects data on behalf of the Chinese government. While some form of data collection is normal for these Internet services, the US government. UU it took a special problem with the possibility that the data from US citizens are used to promote China’s espionage activities. Of course, the grass and other companies denied such accusations, but that did not stop the Trump administration that issued the prohibitions.

Trump also gave Stetence an ultimatum to sell his US business. UU to American companies, but never became fructification. Fortunately, for the scholarship, the courts began next to the owner of Tiktok in the fight against prohibitions, delaying execution for months. There will be no more executions, at least for now, but President Biden is not giving companies a clean pass.

The Executive Order of the President of the United States leads the Department of Commerce to present a more adequate framework to act on such allegations. Instead of immediately banning the ban on ban on the left and right, the framework would determine the national security risks of doing business with companies related to governments that often oppose the ideals of the United States, such as China.

This EO does not mean exactly that Tiktok was innocent all the time. He could still be convicted of actually participating in China’s data collection campaign about US citizens, but at least now it has more time to prove otherwise.