WASHINGTON : Two U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation this week aimed at letting the government 'ban or prohibit' foreign technology products such as Chinese-owned TikTok, Senator Mark Warner said on Sunday.Warner, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said TikTok would be 'one of the
WASHINGTON : Two U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation this week aimed at letting the government"ban or prohibit" foreign technology products such as Chinese-owned TikTok, Senator Mark Warner said on Sunday.
The bill comes at a time when TikTok is under intensifying pressure over concerns that data about U.S. users could end up in the hands of the Chinese government. The White House last week gave government agencies 30 days to ensure that TikTok is not on any federal devices and systems. More than 30 U.S. states, Canada and European Union policy institutions have also banned TikTok from being loaded onto state-owned devices.
He said the bill he plans to introduce"would say, in terms of foreign technology coming into America, we've got to have a systematic approach to make sure we can ban or prohibit it when necessary."
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