The U.S. State Department said Wednesday that it will take steps to safeguard American citizens' privacy and intellectual property from what it views as China's potential intrusions in a wide range of areas including mobile apps, cloud services and undersea cables.Calling China-owned apps like TikTok and WeChat "significant threats" to the personal data of American citizens and tools for content censorship by Beijing, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said at a press conference, "We want to see untrusted Chinese apps removed from U.S. app stores."The U.S. government will also work to prevent v…READ FULL ARTICLE