It is popular among Chinese students, ex-pats and some Americans who have personal or business relationships in China. WeChat has had an average of 19 million daily active users in the United States, analytics firms Apptopia said in early August. Popular apps The Trump administration has ramped up efforts to purge “untrusted" Chinese apps from US digital networks and has called TikTok and WeChat “significant threats.” TikTok has 100 million users in the United States and is especially popular among younger Americans. EDT (1245 GMT) on Friday, the officials said. In a statement to Reuters, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said "we have taken significant action to combat China's malicious collection of American citizens' personal data, while promoting our national values, democratic rules-based norms, and aggressive enforcement of US laws and regulations." The order is set to be published at 8:45 a.m. China and the companies have denied US user data is collected for spying. Commerce department officials said they were taking the extraordinary step because of the risks the apps' data collection poses. The bans are in response to a pair of executive orders issued by Trump on August 6 that gave the commerce department 45 days to determine what transactions to block from the apps he deemed pose a national security threat.
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