The United States Senate today unanimously agreed to pass legislation banning the installation of the TikTok app on the work devices of public servants. Through this bill TikTok can only be installed on privately owned devices on the grounds that TikTok poses a security risk.
The legislation is still being passed by the United States House of Representatives and signed by President Biden before becoming legal law. Several states in the United States have banned the installation of TikTok on work devices used by public servants. This law if passed would ban it at the federal level.
TikTok has already released a statement saying they do not share user data with the Chinese government. User data from the United States has already been transferred to Oracle-owned browsers in the country. Although it is claimed that it could be a spying application, the United States has so far not presented solid evidence that this has happened.
The trade war between China and the United States began three years ago under the administration of Donald Trump. Technology restrictions are imposed on large Chinese companies such as Huawei, ZTE and DJI. Under Joe Biden's administration, barriers were tightened with the sale of chip technology and manufacturing machines were imposed. Today ARM will not sell chips to Alibaba.
At the same time the CHIPS Act was passed this year with the United States investing in moving chip production domestically with TSMC and Samsung foundries set to open within a few years.