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Possible TikTok Ban in the US: What Does This Mean for Marketers? Raphael Pires Raphael Pires Jan 9, 23 | 4 min read ✓ Human crafted content Possible TikTok Ban in the US Need content for your business? Find top writers on WriterAccess! Try for free TikTok’s COO, Vanessa Pappas,  Security Committee in 2022 claiming that “non US-based employees, including China-based employees, will only have access to a narrow set of TikTok US user data, such as public videos and comments available to anyone on the TikTok platform.


To ensure global interoperability.” Whatever TikTok has in place, the fact is that the CCP in China includes a requirement that every Chinese-owned business must provide user data to the Chinese government, if requested. That left TikTok in an Algeria WhatsApp Number interesting catch-22 position even before the story broke that TikTok’s parent company, Chinese-owned ByteDance, had used TikTok to spy on certain US journalists.



ByteDance gained access to personal data and to the IP address of a journalist from the Financial Times because it thought journalists had gained access to sensitive information. This is obviously a serious violation of privacy. Currently, TikTok has been banned from any House of Representatives phones and from government-issued phones across 19 states. TikTok is also under investigation by the Committee for Foreign Investment because of its links to the CCCP. Tiktok is actively attempting to negotiate a US data deal with the Justice Department.