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                                                                                           TECHNOLOGY                      Monday 24 June 2024

            TikTok             accuses                federal              agency                of        ‘political                        HEALTH

            demagoguery’  in  legal  challenge  against  potential                                                                 DOCTOR ON DUTY


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            By HALELUYA HADERO                                                                     said was arranged by Paul    Tel. 527 4000
            AP Business Writer                                                                     Rosen,  the  U.S.  Treasury’s      San Nicolas
            TikTok  disclosed  a  letter                                                           undersecretary  for  invest-  Imsan 24 hours
            Thursday    that   accused                                                             ment security.                Tel.524 8833
            the  Biden  administration                                                             According to TikTok, Rosen   Women in Difficulties
            of  engaging  in  “political                                                           told the company that “se-   PHARMACY ON DUTY
            demagoguery”         during                                                            nior  government  officials”
            high-stakes    negotiations                                                            deemed  the  draft  agree-   Oranjestad:
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            between  the  government                                                               ment  to  be  insufficient  to   San Nicolas:
            and  the  company  as  it                                                              address  the  government’s   San Nicolas:Tel. 584 5712
            sought to relieve concerns                                                             national security concerns.
            about  its  presence  in  the                                                          Rosen  also  said  a  solution   OTHER
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            The  letter  —  sent  to  David   The icon for the video sharing TikTok app is seen on a smart-  divestment  by  ByteDance   Blood Bank Aruba 587 0002
            Newman,  a  top  official  in   phone, Feb. 28, 2023, in Marple Township, Pa.          and  the  migration  of  the   Urgent Care 586 0448
            the  Justice  Department’s                                            Associated Press  social  platform’s  source   Walk-In Doctor’s Clinic
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            before    President   Biden  implement  more  robust  telligence  community  and  programming,  out  of  Chi-       EMERGENCY
            signed  the  potential  TikTok  safeguards   around   U.S.  in Congress, the Justice De-  na.
            ban into law — was submit-   user  data.  It  would  have  partment  has  consistently  TikTok’s lawsuit has painted   Police         100
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            ted  in  federal  court  along  also  required  TikTok  to  put  warned  about  the  threat  divestment  as  a  techno-  Noord        527 3200
            with  a  legal  brief  support-  in a “kill switch” that would  of  autocratic  nations  that  logical  impossibility  since   Sta. Cruz      527 2900
            ing  the  company’s  lawsuit  have allowed CFIUS to sus-  can  weaponize  technol-     the  law  requires  all  of  Tik-  San  Nicolas      584 5000
            against  measure.  TikTok’s  pend the platform if it was  ogy  —  such  as  the  apps  Tok’s  millions  of  lines  of   Police Tipline      11141
            Beijing-based parent com-    found to be non-compliant  and  software  that  run  on  code  to  be  wrested  from   Ambulancia        911
            pany  ByteDance  is  also  a  with the agreement.         our phones – to use against  ByteDance  so  that  there   Fire Dept.        115
            plaintiff in the lawsuit, which  However,   attorneys   for  us,”  the  statement  said.  would  be  no  “operational   Red Cross      582 2219
            is  expected  to  be  one  of  TikTok  said  the  agency  “This threat is compounded  relationship”  between  the   TAXI SERVICES
            the biggest legal battles in  “ceased    any    substan-  when those autocratic na-    Chinese company and the      Taxi Tas       587 5900
            tech and internet history.   tive  negotiations”  with  the  tions  require  companies  new U.S. app.q              Prof. Taxi     588 0035
            The  internal  documents  company after it submitted  under  their  control  to  turn                               Taxi D.T.S.    587 2300
            provide  details  about  ne-  the draft agreement in Au-  over  sensitive  data  to  the                            Taxi Serv. Aruba 583 3232
            gotiations  between  TikTok  gust 2022.                   government in secret.”                                    A1 Taxi Serv.   280 2828
            and  the  Committee  on  CFIUS  did  not  immediately  The letter sent to Newman                                    Women in Difficulties
            Foreign  Investment  in  the  respond  to  a  request  for  details  additional  meet-                              TRAVEL INFO
            United  States,  a  secretive  comment.  The  Justice  De-  ings  between  TikTok  and                              Aruba Airport   524 2424
            inter-agency panel that in-  partment  said  it  is  looking  government  officials  since                          American Airlines 582 2700
            vestigates corporate deals  forward  to  defending  the  then,  including  a  March                                 Avianca       588 0059
            over national security con-  recently  enacted  legisla-  2023  call  the  company                                  Jet Blue      588 2244
            cerns,  between  January  tion, which it says address-                                                              Surinam       582 7896
            2021 and August 2022.        es  “critical  national  secu-                                                         Women in Difficulties
            TikTok  has  said  those  talks  rity  concerns  in  a  manner                                                      AID FOUNDATIONS
            ultimately  resulted  in  a  90-  that  is  consistent  with  the                                                   FAVI- Visually Impaired
            page draft security agree-   First Amendment and other                                                              Tel. 582 5051
            ment  that  would  have  constitutional limitations.”                                                               Alcoholics Anonymous
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