US Bans Tiktok and Wechat
US Bans TikTok and WeChat Mobile Apps It has long been known that free mobile apps make their money by selling your data to advertisers. That’s what funds most of the mobile apps in existence and, for that matter, many of the websites around the world. That’s the economics of the digital world. What is more sinister is the collection of data for surveillance, or the censoring of messages that pass through those apps.