The Trump governing is intuitively investigating the documents collection policies of American companies married to Tencent, post-obit sanctions on Tencent app WeChat eldest this year. Bloomberg reports that the Committee on Foreign Lead in the United States (CFIUS) has beatific messages to League of Legends studio Riot and Fortnite maker Epic Games, asking irregularly "their security protocols in handling Americans' personal data."
Tencent owns Riot and has a pubescence pale in Epic, and many over-and-above companies, some of whom Bloomberg says conjointly sanctioned letters. The rhetoric doesn't elaborate on the specific questions being asked, but it tallies with an panoptic marvel that Chinese government agencies could get tunnel to private documents nerveless by apps on American soil.
The offset appeared shortly before the US Marketing Department issued an order requiring app food to suppress WeChat and ByteDance's TikTok app on September 20th. People who hypothesize installed TikTok can use it until at minuscule November 12th, hind the US presidential election, but WeChat is being hit with telestic restrictions that make its operation more difficult. Fortnite is, in fact, unclad on iOS and Android app food at the moment, but that's considering of the gospel that of a separate legal fight involving in-app purchase policies.
The Trump governing hasn't gone hind over-and-above big Tencent backdrop so far, sparing popular games like League of Legends. The CFIUS investigation, however, could precede greater scrutiny of companies with Tencent links.
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