He President Joe Biden This Friday he supported the law that prepares the House of Representatives to ban the application of short videos in the United States TikToka move that comes amid growing concern in Washington about keeping Americans' data out of China's hands. “If they approve it, I will sign it”explained the President Joe Biden when journalists asked him about the law. These statements stand out with the use of his presidential campaignwhich uses this platform to deliver the message of the president of the United States to voters.
The law, approved this Thursday unanimously in the Energy and Commerce Committee of the House of Representatives, a red mark that urges the Chinese company ByteDance to divest ownership of TikTok. He republican spokesperson from House of RepresentativesMike Johnson, a congressman from Louisiana, has also supported the bill. He FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance, owner of TikTok, could share user data – such as browsing history, location and biometric information – with China. In response, TikTok has assured that it has never shared user information.
Biden has already banned TikTok trend to the almost four million civil servants on government-owned devices, with limited exceptions for law enforcement, national security, and security investigation purposes.
If the law is passed, it would prohibit TikTok and other ByteDance apps from being available in the Apple or Google app stores or other web hosting services in the United States.
The bill has two aspects: first of all, requires Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd. to divest TikTok and other apps it controls within 180 days of the bill's enactment, as previously noted. Otherwise, such applications would be banned in the United States. In second placewould offer the possibility of prohibiting access to an application owned by a foreigner if it represented a threat to national security.
Along the same lines, Biden recently signed a decree which allows Justice Department and other federal agencies to take steps to prevent the large-scale transfer of Americans' personal data to what the White House calls “countries of concern,” including China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, Cuba y Venezuela.