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Despite the talks between Microsoft and TikTok, President Trump today signed two more bans that focus on WeChat and TikTok. TikTok and WeChat are effectively banned in the USA from September 20th. This date is due to the 45-day period that the US President gave Microsoft to buy TikTok in the USA. WeChat Logo (Source: Tencent) "TikTok, a mobile application from the Chinese ByteDance Ltd. has reportedly been downloaded over 175 million times in the US and over a billion times worldwide. TikTok automatically collects huge amounts of information from its users, including information about Internet and other network activities such as location data, browsing and search histories … This collection of data threatens to give the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information – which China may be able to to track the locations of federal employees and contractors, compile dossiers of personal information for extortion, and engage in corporate espio...