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Tiktok claims to have more than one billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte—dance. and that's what's worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on the device. that includes contacts, user content and location. here's our technology correspondent shiona mccall. what can beijing do with it? there was a law that was passed in 2017 in china which says that tech companies must comply with the communist party. so if they were to ask for the data from people all across the world, that...

And has become a part of today�*s youth culture. tiktok claims to have more than 1 billion monthly users worldwide. and last year it was the most downloaded app in the world. the app is owned by the chinese company byte—dance. and that�*s what�*s worrying governments. because the app can collect data stored on the device. that includes contacts, user content and location. here�*s our technology correspondent shiona mccall. what can beijing do with it? there was a law that was passed in 2017 in china which says that tech companies must comply with the communist party. so if they were ...

TikTok lovers anxiously awaits word from the White House on if they plan to ban the beloved app owned by ByteDance. What could avoid the ban?

The eu and taiwan and in 2020 india banned it outright, along with other chinese apps, over national security concerns. and the us could follow suit. here�*s our business correspondent katie silver. sell tiktok or else you might be banned. that is what the us government has told the parent company of tiktok. it has accused the chinese owned app as posing a national security risk by gathering the data of millions of users and possibly feeding this back to the chinese government. it is something washington has alleged for years and something byte—dance has consistently denied. the us governm...

A bill has passed the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee that could lead to a ban on short-form video app TikTok in the United States.