Some men are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some men seek great positions to avoid legal consequences. According to sources close to Donald Trump, he’s the latter this time around.
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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok, the massively popular short-form video app, is in the crosshairs of American policymakers again over its ownership by Chinese internet giant ByteDance.Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner of the FCC, posted a letter to Apple and Google on Twitter, urging the tech giants to remove TikTok from their respective app stores — calling it “an unacceptable national security risk.”“TikTok is not just another video app. That’s the sheep’s clothing,” Carr, who was appointed to the FCC in 2017 by Donald Trump, said in the tweet Tuesday accompanying the letter.
“It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing. I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.” Carr’s comments amount to little more than saber-rattling, given that the FCC does not have the authority to regulate apps.
His call to have TikTok banned in the U.S. came after a June 17 BuzzFeed News report that TikTok staffers in China have “repeatedly” accessed U.S.-based users’ data.“TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S.
user data” violate Apple and Google’s policies, Carr claimed in the letter. “TikTok is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance — an organization that is beholden to the Communist Party of China and required by the Chinese law to comply with PRC’s surveillance demands… It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.”Apple and Google haven’t responded to Carr’s call to remove TikTok
.Some men are born great. Some have greatness thrust upon them. And some men seek great positions to avoid legal consequences. According to sources close to Donald Trump, he’s the latter this time around.
has issued a temporary block against President Joe Biden, stopping the administration from from enforcing LGBTQ civil rights protections in employment and education the President had put into place upon taking office. That order comes in response to a lawsuit filed by 20 right wing state attorneys general.Judge Charles E.
Donald Trump's ex-wife died of "blunt impact injuries", New York City's medical examiner confirmed.MORE: Why President Trump and wife Melania didn't bow and curtsy to the QueenThe 73-year-old mother of Ivanka, Donald Jr, and Eric died on Thursday 14 July after reportedly falling down the stairs in her New York apartment. NYPD said there did not "appear to be any criminality" related to her death.WATCH: Ivana Trump, first wife of former US president Donald Trump, dies aged 73Ivana grew up under Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia and married Donald in 1977.The couple divorced in 1992 but they remained close friends up to her death.She later married Italian entrepreneur and international businessman Riccardo."Mom, we will miss you incredibly.
Ivana Trump's death has been ruled "accidental" after she suffered "blunt impact injuries" to her torso after falling down the stairs in her New York apartment. The 73 year old ex-wife of former US president Donald Trump died on July 14. Donald, 76, took to social media platform Truth Social to pay tribute as he wrote: "I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City”.
Ivana Trump died after suffering "blunt impact injuries" to her torso in a fall down stairs at her New York City home.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorVeteran security exec Roland Cloutier is stepping down after two and half years as TikTok’s global chief security officer. According to TikTok, the change is part of a restructuring in how the app provider, owned by China’s ByteDance, manages data of U.S.-based users — amid heightened scrutiny from some U.S. lawmakers.“Part of our evolving approach has been to minimize concerns about the security of user data in the U.S., including the creation of a new department to manage U.S.
Ivanka Trump says she is “heartbroken” following the announcement that her mother Ivana Trump has died at the age of 73. The businesswoman and former presidential advisor, described her mother as “brilliant, charming, passionate and wickedly funny”. Ivana Trump was the first wife of former US president Donald Trump and died at her home in New York City.
Ivana Trump, Donald J. Trump’s first wife and the mother of Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump, has died at her home in Manhattan at 73.
was found dead in her New York City home Thursday. The 73-year-old Czech American, ex-wife of the former president and mother of Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr., is believed to have suffered cardiac arrest, authorities told The Post, but her official cause of death has yet to be determined. “Our mother was an incredible woman — a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty and caring mother and friend,” Eric Trump said in a statement announcing her death.
A bustling brood. Former president Donald Trump has a large family tree, with numerous siblings, wives, children and grandchildren.
Ivana Trump has died at the age of 73. The ex wife of the former President of the United States of America Donald Trump was found dead in her New York City apartment on Thursday 14 July. Donald, 76, took to social media platform Truth Social to pay tribute as he wrote: "I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City”.
TikTok is the latest social media platform to come under the scrutiny of US lawmakers, with Republican senators and a regulator both arguing that the app poses a national security risk.
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe CEO of TikTok tried to reassure U.S. lawmakers — who have renewed concerns over its sharing of U.S. user data with employees in China — that the video app company is taking steps to restrict that access to only a “narrow” slice of data.TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew sent a letter dated June 30 to nine GOP senators in response to their inquiry this week “demanding answers on TikTok’s backdoor data access for Beijing,” a reference to China’s communist regime.
The Chainsmokers have spoken out after their track ‘Paris’ began trending on TikTok as a pro-abortion anthem.The EDM duo’s 2017 song started gaining traction on the video platform following the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that protects a person’s right to safely terminate a pregnancy in the US.For the first time in nearly five decades, abortion will no longer be protected as a federal right in America.
“TikTok is not just another video app. That’s the sheep’s clothing.
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