U.S. will act to deny China access to Americans’ data, says Pompeo


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U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo holds press briefing at the State Department in Washington More By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will take steps to ensure the Chinese government does not gain any access to the private information of American citizens through telecommunications and social media, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Wednesday, when asked if the U.S. was planning to ban Chinese-owned app Tiktok. Pompeo also praised U.S. technology giants Google , Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc for 'refusing to surrender' user data to the Hong Kong government and urged other companies to follow...