US evaluating an entire range of Chinese products with access to data on Americans

The United States has mentioned it was evaluating a complete vary of Chinese apps and merchandise that will have information on Americans and might be endeavor actions to protect and shield them from being accessed by the Chinese authorities, not solely TikTok or anybody particular firm.

“It’s something we’re looking at, yes,” President Donald Trump informed a TV interviewer Tuesday, about TikTok. “It’s a big business. Look, what happened with China with this virus, what they’ve done to this country and to the entire world is disgraceful.”

Trump was responding to a query about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s remarks suggesting the US was contemplating a ba TikTok, the favored video-sharing app that’s on the prime of each hit-list right here and around the globe after India banned it together with others with suspected hyperlinks to Chinese authorities.

On Wednesday, the secretary of state acknowledged that the US was a complete vary of Chinese merchandise, units and apps, not simply TikTok.

“We have been engaged in constant evaluation about ensuring we protect the privacy of American citizens and their information,” Pompeo informed reporters Wednesday, and “(not) to any one business or company but rather to American national security.”

His feedback from earlier within the week about “any one company” — TikTok — he mentioned, “fall in the context of us evaluating the threat from the Chinese Communist Party”. He went on to quote ZTE, Huawei as examples of the continued analysis.

“We are now evaluating each instance where we believe that US citizens’ data they have on their phones or in the system or in their health care records we want to make sure that the Chinese government does not have the way to easily access them,” he mentioned, including the administration might be taking actions to protect and shield that data.