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Rhiannon Curry

TikTok drawing up plans to deal with Chinese security concerns to avoid a sale

The US government had asked TikTok’s Chinese parent company to sell it

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TikTok is drawing up plans with US lawmakers to make changes to its data security and governance without requiring its parent firm, China’s ByteDance, to sell it, according to reports.

The short-form video app is working with the Biden administration to draft an agreement to resolve national security concerns about its use of users’ data, the New York Times reported on Monday.

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