UPDATE: TikTok Officially Sues Trump Administration Over Executive Order
This Monday, TikTok announced that it is suing the Trump administration over its executive order which is aimed at banning the short-form video app from the country.
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The administration ignored our extensive efforts to address its concerns, which we conducted fully and in good faith,” the company said in a press release announcing the suit. “We do not take suing the government lightly, however, we feel we have no choice but to take action to protect our rights and the rights of our community and employees.”
As we previously reported earlier this month, the President signed not one but two executive orders earlier this month urging ByteDance, the China-based company that owns the app, to sell off its American assets. Trump beloved that that TikTok’s ties to China pose a security threat, especially during the upcoming presidential election.
The company argues the Trump administration has failed to provide evidence that it is in fact a threat.
“[A]s the U.S. government is well aware, Plaintiffs have taken extraordinary measures to protect the privacy and security of TikTok’s U.S. user data, including by having TikTok store such data outside of China (in the United States and Singapore) and by erecting software barriers that help ensure that TikTok stores its U.S. user data separately from the user data of other ByteDance products,” the complaint reads, according to The Hill.
As the news site notes, TikTok will move forward with the filing later today in the Federal District Court for the Central District of California. The company announced its intention to sue this past weekend.
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