Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, July 7th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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tech. I told you yesterday that social media platforms were hitting the pause button in terms of cooperating with requests from authorities for user data in Hong Kong.

Well, Tik-Tok has gone one step further and actually pulled the Tik-Tok

app completely from the Google Play and Apple App Store in Hong Kong in light of that

new security law we talked about yesterday.

Tik-Tok says it doesn't and wouldn't share user info with the Chinese government, quoting Axios.

In light of recent events, we've decided to stop operations of the Tik-Toc app in Hong Kong.

A spokesperson told Axios on Monday night, observers have said the new law forces company a spokesperson censorship requests. The move comes as Tic-Toc parent bite dance has looked to more clearly separate

Tic-Toc, which operates outside of China from a similar app used within mainland China.

The company has said that Tik-Tok has not shared data with the Chinese government,

nor would it, a position that would be difficult, if not impossible, to maintain under the

new law, end quote. Now, Hong. if not a very big market for

a very big market for tic-toc.

Estimates are that there are maybe only around 150,000

tick-toc users in h Hong Kong, but at the same time,

remember I just read you about Tik-Tok wanting to distance itself from the Chinese government.

Remember that when I tell you this.

In an interview on Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

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