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TikTok to be banned from US app stores from Sunday

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CNN Article: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/18/tech/tiktok-download-commerce/index.html

TikTok will be removed from US app stores from Sunday as Washington implements executive orders from President Donald Trump that also target WeChat, a Chinese social media app.
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The imminent removals come as Oracle and ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, continue talks with the Trump administration over how to resolve its concerns over the video app. Any deal will also have to be approved by Beijing.

Oracle and ByteDance have submitted a proposal that would involve TikTok's global business being spun out into a separate US company, with an all-American board and a security committee headed by a person with US government security clearances. The new company would initially be majority owned by ByteDance, but would look to list publicly in the US.
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Wilbur Ross, the US commerce secretary, said: "We have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of US laws and regulations."

Speaking on Fox Business, Mr Ross said WeChat would effectively be shut down immediately in the US. He said existing TikTok users in the country would suffer a gradual degradation of service, but could use the app until November 12.

TikTok would be shut down on that date in the event that ByteDance had not come up with a solution that satisfied the US government.

Asked whether he believed that China would retaliate against the moves, he said: "Well, that's up to them."
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