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    TikTok launches legal action against Trump ban

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorAugust 23, 20202 Comments3 Mins Read
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    Chinese video app TikTok is taking legal action to challenge a ban imposed by United States President Donald Trump.

    Mr Trump’s executive order prohibits transactions with TikTok’s owner ByteDance from mid-September.

    Officials in Washington are concerned that the company could pass data on American users to the Chinese government, something ByteDance has denied doing.

    The short video-sharing app has 80 million active US users.

    TikTok says it has tried to engage with the Mr Trump’s administration for nearly a year but has encountered a lack of due process and an administration that pays “no attention to facts”.

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    “To ensure that the rule of law is not discarded and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the executive order through the judicial system,” a company spokesperson said.

    TikTok expects the legal action to begin this week, says BBC Business reporter Vivienne Nunis.

    On Friday a group of Chinese-Americans filed a separate lawsuit against the president’s similar ban on the social media app WeChat, which is owned by the Chinese firm, Tencent.

    TikTok’s users post short video clips on the platform on topics ranging from dance routines to international politics. Its popularity exploded in recent months particularly with teenagers and it has been downloaded more than a billion times around the world.

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    But Mr Trump claims China is able to use the app to track the locations of federal employees, collect information for use in blackmail, or spy on companies.

    The growth of mobile apps developed and owned by Chinese firms “threatens the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States”, Mr Trump says.

    “This data collection threatens to allow the Chinese Communist Party access to Americans’ personal and proprietary information,” he claims in his executive order.

    TikTok says it has never handed over any US data user to Chinese authorities.

    Mr Trump’s actions against TikTok and WeChat are the latest in a growing campaign against China ahead of the US presidential election in November.

    Since taking office he has been waging a trade war against China.

    The US is not the only country to introduce blocks on TikTok. India has banned use of the app, and Australia is also considering taking action.

    WeChat is very popular with users who have connections to China, where major social networking platforms – such as WhatsApp and Facebook – are blocked.

    It is also viewed as being a key instrument in China’s internal surveillance apparatus – requiring local users who have been accused of spreading malicious rumours to register a facial scan and voice print.

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