The U.S. Commerce Department has issued an order that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok, starting Sunday. ByteDance has been talks with Oracle Corp and others to create a new company, TikTok Global, which aims to address U.S. concerns about the security of its users' data. U.S. Commerce Department officials said they were taking the extraordinary step because of the risks the apps' data collection poses. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)Commerce will not penalize people who use TikTok or WeChat in the United States. The order does not bar data storage within the United States for WeChat or TikTok.

Source: CBC News September 18, 2020 12:40 UTC