wherewithal, lots of lobbyists in washington, an incredible team of lawyers who are working vigorously to stay in business. 100 million americans use the app. people in the us is at an average about 56 minutes per day, more than instagram and facebook, all of that culture emanates from tiktok. there are a lot of people in the country trying to keep the app in existence and they have a team of lawyers and experts here trying to convince the lighthouse and states now taking action in the us against tiktok that it is safe, according to data from china and it ought to stay around, but that s going to play out in the courts. we are looking at months or years are very protracted legal battles ahead over the future of tiktok in america. over the future of tiktok in america- america. we will leave it there. thanks america. we will leave it there. thanks very - america. we will leave it | there. thanks very much. we will talk more about the legal challenges and the popularity of facebook and
uses personal information can be passed on to the chinese government bytedance. but bytedance and tiktok deny this, saying there is nowhere the chinese government can get its hands on the data, but this is why governments are so concerned, it is because the extent of data that tiktok has on its users is massive. it has information on your location, on yourfriends, it information on your location, on your friends, it allows itself to collect biometric data. it calls those faceprints and voiceprint, it does not say how it will use those, even what you like, what you what websites you visit. so if you re a government minister or a journalist or activist, the stakes get even higher and they have to deal with a wider security issues. but the bbc spoke to a tiptop representative in the united kingdom shortly after the uk s decision to ban the app on government devices and they strongly denied the allegations.-
strongly denied the allegations. strongly denied the alleuations. ~ ., , allegations. we are very disappointed. allegations. we are very disappointed. the - allegations. we are very - disappointed. the government has said disappointed. the government has said that this is about tears has said that this is about tears rather than facts. we haven t tears rather than facts. we haven t done anything wrong. we believe haven t done anything wrong. we believe this is based on geopolitics more than anything else geopolitics more than anything else. tiktok is political football in this. and the united states is potentially taking even stronger action? they want bytedance to sell the us app to a us company and are threatening to sell the app to ban the app across the country if they don t do that. tiktok and bytedance are considering their options but they have said that they think it is a pointless move because it would not change its data flows and access and that they are already
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