President Trump has issued an executive order banning Ant Group’s Alipay, WeChat, and 6 other Chinese apps in the US. The main aim of all these is to stop the Chinese government from gathering more American user’s data – so says a senior administration.
The order reportedly says that the US government has come to the conclusion that a number of Chinese apps automatically capture “sensitive personally identifiable… and private information” from millions of users in the United States. The president is concerned that the apps can be used to keep track of essential federal employees and contractors. “At this time,” he wrote in the order, “action must be taken to address the threat posed by these Chinese connected software applications.”
The order also affects Tencent’s QQ Wallet, Tencent’s QQ messenger, CamScanner, SHAREit, VMate (published by Alibaba Group subsidiary UCWeb), and Beijing Kingsoft Office Software’s WPS Office. This was exactly the same that happened sometime last when TikTok and WeChat were given a deadline to submit or get banned from app stores in the United States.
Both attempts were blocked by the court on freedom of speech grounds. A senior administration official told Reuters, however, that the White House believes these particular restrictions would stick.
President-elect Joe Biden could revoke it after he assumes office, but his camp has yet to announce his decision. Most of the apps’ users are in China, especially payment applications, which require Chinese bank accounts.
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