The app has become a political pawn in the fight between US & China with Trump and Pompeo saying a Tiktok ban could be a form of retaliation over Beijing’s handling of Covid.
In letter to Donald Trump, US Congress members said America should ban Chinese apps such as TikTok, like India has done, to protect privacy & national security.
Whenever Pakistan faces a difficult situation, it simply applies the rule of ban. In 2005, it was kite-flying festival Basant, now its online video game PUBG.
According to researchers, TikTok starts collecting data the minute you download the app, tracks websites you browse and how you type, down to keystroke rhythms & patterns.
A survey by LocalCircles also found that 29% respondents felt government-sanctioned action should be taken against Indian companies with Chinese investment.
In interview to Fox News, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said those using Chinese apps could be ceding private info to Chinese Communist Party'. He praised India for banning apps.
'Any organisation that has an easy time is corrupted by it. I like opposition to grow up to oppose the Congress,' Nehru said during India's first general election campaign in 1951-52.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
The India-South Africa series-defining fact is the catastrophic decline of Indian red ball cricket where a visiting team can mock us with the 'grovel' word.
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