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AskCyber Home » News » News » Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s TikTok Ban

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s TikTok Ban

2020-09-28 by Michelle Dvorak

TikTok Ban Halted

TikTok Ban Halted by Injunction Hours Before Deadline

A federal judge issued an injunction halting the TikTok ban ordered by the US President Donald Trump. The complaint was filed by TikTok and parent corporation ByteDance in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The injunction temporarily stops an executive order signed by Trump banning TikTok from operating in the United States. A similar executive order was signed banning Tencent’s app WeChat.

TikTok is a popular video creation and sharing app with over two billion downloads. It is available in 200 countries. Content includes entertainment, creativity, and humor. TikTok is owned by Chinese company ByteDance. The company recently launched a Creator Fund to provide $1 Billion USD to invest in professional content creators in the United States.

TikTok Ban – Trump Executive Order

Trump signed an executive order on 6 August that authorized the US Secretary of Commerce to prohibit “any transaction” with ByteDance and its subsidiaries. The executive order was to go into effect on 20 September and would ban TikTok from US app stores. On 12 November the app would shut down on all US users’ phones.

Judge Carl Nichols of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued the injunction. The TikTok ban would prevent US users from downloading new copies of the app. The prohibition would have also forced app stores like Google Play and the Apple store – to remove TikTok. However, the ban would have not prohibited US citizens who already have the app downloaded to their mobile devices from using it.

TikTok has over users 689,174,209 monthly active users worldwide, including 50 million daily active users in the United States. The app lets users record, edit, and share short-form videos.

The injunction states, “Defendants took this extraordinary action of prohibiting a popular communication and information-sharing platform without affording its owners—Plaintiffs TikTok Inc. and ByteDance Ltd.—due process of law, and for political reasons rather than because of any “unusual and extraordinary threat” to the United States, which is a condition for the President to exercise his authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (“IEEPA”), 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701–1706.“

READ: India Bans Chinese Apps – TikTok, WeChat, 57 More

TikTok Data Privacy

The executive order cites the app is a threat to national security. It asserts that TikTok shares US user data with the Chinese government.

TikTok stores data including:

  • Names
  • Birthdays
  • Addresses
  • phone numbers
  • emails address
  • passwords
  • PayPal account information
  • phone contact lists
  • private videos
  • direct messages
  • date/time of the user’s log-in history

US politicians with verified TikTok accounts include Governor Michael DeWine of Ohio, Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Governor Gavin Newsom of California, and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

The order is only temporary, and the Judge Nichols has scheduled another hearing for Wednesday to hear additional arguments.

TikTok Oracle Deal

TikTok is still in negotiations to partner with Oracle and Walmart to satisfy demands in the executive order. If successful, the arrangement would see the two US companies owning a 20 percent stake in TikTok. President Donald Trump announced Sept. 19 that he had given his “blessing” to the deal, but the agreement has not been officially approved by the companies or the U.S. Treasury Department

Filed Under: News Tagged With: TikTok

About Michelle Dvorak

Michelle writes about cyber security, data privacy focusing on social media privacy as well as how to protect your IoT devices. She has worked in internet technology for over 20 years and owns METRONY, LLC. Michelle earned a B.S. in Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Michelle published a guide to Cyber Security for Business Travelers


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