A powerful US congressional committee has passed a bill that would remove TikTok from app stores unless its Chinese owner divests the video-sharing platform, brushing off a lobbying campaign that had enlisted thousands of its users.
The House energy and commerce committee approved the bipartisan bill 50-0 on Thursday after a classified briefing from officials about the risks the app posed to Americans because of its ownership by the Chinese group ByteDance.
US security officials say Beijing could access the personal data of the 170mn Americans who use TikTok because of Chinese laws requiring domestic companies to hand over information to the government.
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