Bloomberg New Economy: Trump’s China App Threats May Hurt U.S.

To live in America is to be surveilled every second of every day by phone apps harvesting data on how you look and dress, your tastes, habits and location—and those of your family, friends and acquaintances. TikTok is one of them. WeChat is another.

But they’re the only apps the White House has threatened to close down for this kind of egregious intrusion, even if TikTok has been thrown a lifeline by Microsoft’s potential purchase of its U.S. operations, and President Donald Trump decision not to oppose it.