US daily news - TikTok row Microsoft pursues deal as Pompeo says Trump will take action

Donald Trump will take action in coming days to tackle an array of national security risks presented by TikTok and other Chinese software companies, Mike Pompeo has said, as Microsoft revealed it was pursuing a deal after speaking to the US president. Microsoft said late on Sunday that - after a conversation between Trump and its CEO, Satya Nadella – it would move quickly on acquisition talks with TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, completing talks no later than 15 September. It pledged to ensure that all private data of American users was transferred to, and remained in, the US. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters that Trump had agreed to give ByteDance 45 days to negotiate a sale TikTok to Microsoft.“A win-win in the making,” Republican Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted in response to Trump’s new stance on Sunday. The statement came after Pompeo told Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures: “These Chinese software companies doing business in the United States, whether it’s TikTok or WeChat – there are countless more … are feeding data directly to the Chinese Communist party, their national security apparatus.“Could be their facial recognition patterns. It could be information about their residence, their phone numbers, their friends, who they’re connected to. Those are the issues that President Trump has made clear we’re going to take care of,” he said.

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Article Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/03/tiktok-row-trump-to-take-action-soon-says-pompeo-as-microsoft-pursues-deal


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