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TikTok's ban won't protect Americans from China, according to Trump. He might be right
Trump reiterates concerns over TikTok, citing national security risks and potential Chinese surveillance. His 2020 executive order sought to ban the app over data privacy threats, a stance echoed by bipartisan lawmakers. Federal agencies have since restricted TikTok use, and a Supreme Court-backed law now mandates ByteDance to divest or face a ban.
In response to national security worries about TikTok, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, "Is it that important for China to be spying on young people? on young children viewing bizarre videos?"
The man who initially attempted to ban TikTok from the US due to concerns that the Chinese government may use the app to obtain intelligence on Americans made the unexpected remark. Trump claimed that TikTok's data collecting may enable China's government "to track the locations of Federal employees and contractors, build dossiers of personal information for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage" in his 2020 executive order, which attempted in vain to prohibit the app.
The majority of US senators concur that Trump's 2020 executive order is dangerous. Federal and state. Since Trump's first term, federal organizations and the military have prohibited employees from downloading the app on their work devices. Additionally, a bipartisan regulation passed by Congress last year mandated that parent company ByteDance sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner or risk being banned; the Supreme Court upheld this rule on national security grounds.
Despite being wildly simplistic, Trump's remark regarding data security might have some validity.
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