And they make the app more secure and isnt user privacy a National Security concern the entire point of this entire witch hunt in the 1st place so what people have to understand is that we chat is one of the very few apps thats available in both china and the u. S. So its not so easy as to be like hey lets just switch over to whatsapp or telegraph like those apps are banned in china so without any chat there will be a total cut off in communication from the mainland not to mention new social Media Communication from the mainland so we always talk about this chinese firewall so this kind of looks like the start of the same thing here in the u. S. Now if we saw the president for banning these communication apps concerns the people will no longer have communication at all whatsoever with either family herb business contacts or right ben meanwhile a separate federal judge gave the trump an illustration until friday 230. 00 eastern to delay an order banning chinese tick tock it looks like t
This kind of looks like the start of the same thing here in the u. S. Now if we saw the president for banning these communication apps so many concerns the people no longer have communication at all whatsoever with either family ur business contacts or right ben meanwhile a separate federal judge gave the Trump Administration until friday 230. 00 eastern to delay an order banning chinese talk of looks like the Trump Administration filed opposition to ticktock request to delay that ban it but that order is still under seal. You know essentially this all goes back to the fact that to talk remember have filed an injunction or ask for an injunction from a federal judge to say you need to stop the for sale of tiktaalik because they say its not legal for the trump ministration to demand that they sell and thats a little older than all the negotiation thats been going on that happened several weeks ago we have all this negotiation in the meantime but tween oracle walmart and to talk of the Ch
Twopart hearing with drug company leaders. It is three hours 35 minutes. Welcome to todays hybrid hearing pursuant to House Speaker rules some members will appear in person and others will appearer remotely. Some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance of the house attending physician, all individuals attending this hearing and person must wear a face mask, unless you are speaking. Members whono are not wearing a face mask will not be recognize recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for these members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you. When they are speaking and what is known as web act as active speaker view. A timer is visible in theib room directly in front of you. For members appearing know youre all familiar with web ex by now, but let me remind you of a few points. Whether they are in person or remote song as they have their web ex set to ac
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A federal judge to allow the barring of we chat from u. S. App Stores Including apple and google last saturday a federal judge issued an injunction that prevented the department of commerce from forcing app stores as of september 20th to remove from download the d. O. J. Has presented the judge with a department of commerce memo claiming the mobile application collects and transmit sensitive personal information on u. S. Persons which is accessible to tense and stored in data centers in china and canada well joining us now to continue for us cohosts ben swan and chrystia i kristie just earlier this week on wednesday the trumpet ministration claim that users who use or download reach out to convey personal or Business Information will actually not be subject to penalties under this new trumped up executive order banning transactions with 10 cent is this a reversal for the administration. Now this is a lot of reversal at all this is merely saying that users will not be punished for using