Moreover, Trump is putting pressure on allied countries in this direction. Finally, Britain decided to exclude Huawei from 5G studies. Earlier this month, US Vice President Mike Pence said they were planning to ban TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.
TikTok collects a lot of data such as which videos are watched and which comments are made, location data, phone model and operating system used, keyboard usage habits. TikTok took some steps to show that he was trying to distance himself from Beijing and even ByteDance. One of them was to bring a CEO from USA to the head of the company. Disney's former broadcast director Kevin Mayer has been the CEO of TikTok since May.