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Users who have TikTok on their devices would still be able to use the app, but banning TikTok from app stores would prohibit future software updates. If ByteDance sells TikTok before Jan. 19, the ...
The Apple App Store and Google Play Store will be prohibited from distributing the app for download and it will be illegal for U.S. internet service providers to host TikTok. Greta Cross is a ...
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act; Long title: An Act to protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications, such as TikTok and any successor application or service and any other application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Ltd. or an entity under the control of ByteDance Ltd.
The law specifies that, in the absence of a “qualified divestiture” by ByteDance, the TikTok ban will go into effect 270 days (nine months) after its enactment — which would be Jan. 19, 2025.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [124] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [125] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [126]
Lawmakers making allegations against TikTok fail to mention that the United States itself surveils non-US nationals under Section 702 of FISA. [127] The types of data collected by TikTok are also collected by other social media platforms and sold through brokers to private buyers and reportedly government agencies as well, without oversight.
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday rejected a temporary pause on the ban of TikTok, ... the app or the ability to download it, if the ban takes place. ... create an account at CNN.com.
DOJ said Wednesday if the ban takes effect on Jan. 19 it would "not directly prohibit the continued use of TikTok" by users who had downloaded TikTok but it conceded that the effect of the ...