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TikTok confirms it offered US government a 'kill switch'

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The platform made the disclosure as part of its legal challenge against a law forcing its sale in the US.

TikTok says it offered the US government the power to shut the platform down in an attempt to address lawmakers' data protection and national security concerns.legislation that will ban the appThe law has been introduced because of concerns TikTok might share US user data with the Chinese government - claims it and ByteDance have always denied.

A draft "National Security Agreement", proposed by TikTok in August 2022, would have seen the company having to The letter, dated 1 April 2024, says the US government ignored requests to meet for further negotiations. Legislation signed in April by President Joe Biden gives ByteDance until January next year to divest TikTok's US assets or face a ban.

 

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