U.S. Government Now Warns TikTok Could Be Banned Next Sunday

TikTok is getting one extra week to resolve its problems in the United States, according to an announcement published by the U.S. Department of Commerce a few hours ago, as President Trump seems to be favoring a potential partnership of the Chinese firm with Oracle and Walmart. TikTok has previously been involved in takeover talks with Microsoft, but the negotiations failed after Chinese owner ByteDance rejected the bid. At that point, President Trump announced a September 20 deadline for TikTok to find an American partner, explaining that otherwise the Chinese service would just be banned and removed from app stores. WeChat was supposed to face similar sanctions due to claimed ties with the Chinese government and user data collection. “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 partic...