On Wednesday, President Joe Biden inscribed an executive order that places criteria for its government to assess the risk factor of foreign adversaries that connected apps. A move with suggestions for Chinese-possessed sites includes WeChat and TikTok.
Biden canceled and substituted three various executive orders already-President Donald Trump that looked to ban transactions with WeChat and TikTok by American trades. One more extreme order also sought to restrict TikTok, consequencing in a long time court battle. TikTok is still available and widely famous in the U.S.
The new policies of Biden will direct the Commerce Department to recheck apps that are bound to a foreign adversary. When the Committee for Foreign Investment in the U.S., or CFIUS, feedbacks its foreign investments or mergers, the policies quote a previous measure by Trump that defines transactions elaborately to include installation or transfer that involves a tech communications service.
This order will count transactions to demand a “heightened risk” while they involve all owned apps, managed or controlled by people helping foreign adversary military or intelligence service or while these apps accumulate different sensitive private information. This order also points to the Commerce Department to work with other different agencies to produce references to secure the data of the U.S. people from foreign adversaries and demands the department to suggest future executive actions and address risks legislation.
Under the last administration, TikTok still holds a valuable position as Trump initiates to ban this app unless it is sold to any American organization. The statement caused Microsoft and Walmart to collaborate and court TikTok although the organization ultimately been with Oracle as its “trusted technology provider”, which cut down far short of a complete sale. 
