{"id":326615,"date":"2020-09-18T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=326615"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:59:07","slug":"us-to-ban-tiktok-wechat-to-protect-national-security-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/us-to-ban-tiktok-wechat-to-protect-national-security-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"US to ban TikTok, WeChat\u00a0to protect national security of country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-324318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01.jpg 887w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01-768x618.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01-696x560.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/06\/Screenshot_20200629-213619__01-522x420.jpg 522w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 887px) 100vw, 887px\" \/>The US government will begin restricting access to TikTok and WeChat on Sunday to safeguard the national security of the Country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said, \u201cIn response to President Trump\u2019s Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce on Friday announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications (apps) WeChat and TikTok to safeguard the national security of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Commerce Department said WeChat will be banned from Sunday while TikTok will shut down by November 12 in the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wilbur Ross in a tweet said, \u201cAt the President\u2019s direction, we have taken significant action to combat China\u2019s malicious collection of American citizens\u2019 personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of U.S. laws and regulations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cToday\u2019s actions prove once again that President @realDonaldTrump will do everything in his power to guarantee our national security and protect Americans from the threats of the Chinese Communist Party,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">While the threats posed by WeChat and TikTok are not identical, they are similar. Each collects vast swaths of data from users, including network activity, location data, and browsing and search histories. Each is an active participant in China\u2019s civil-military fusion and is subject to mandatory cooperation with the intelligence services of the CCP.\u00a0 This combination results in the use of WeChat and TikTok creating unacceptable risks to our national security, according to the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government will begin restricting access to TikTok and WeChat on Sunday to safeguard the national security of the Country. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said, \u201cIn response to President Trump\u2019s Executive Orders signed August 6, 2020, the Department of Commerce on Friday announced prohibitions on transactions relating to mobile applications (apps) WeChat and TikTok [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":324318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[12158,50,13455],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326616,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326615\/revisions\/326616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/324318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}