The Chinese company ByteDance, owner of the short-lived video network TikTok , has confirmed the intention to appeal in court the recent executive order of President Donald Trump that threatens to ban it in the US.
“To ensure that the rule of law prevails and that our company and users are treated fairly, we have no choice but to challenge the executive order through the courts,” the company said in a statement cited by CNN. .
According to forecasts, the lawsuit will be filed this Monday, August 24.
The Chinese company has indicated that it had tried to respond to Washington’s concerns regarding national security , but was met with “a lack of due process, as the Administration did not pay attention to the facts and tried to get into negotiations between companies. ».
The president of the United States signed an executive order at the beginning of the month prohibiting “any” transaction with the company that owns the TikTok mobile application, ByteDance. The order will take effect next month, 45 days after its proclamation .
As the White House explained at the time, TikTok automatically captures “large amounts of information” from its users , including information about the Internet and other Internet activities, such as location and browsing data and search histories.
Thus, ” this data collection threatens to allow the Communist Party of China (CCP) access to personal and proprietary information of Americans ” something that would potentially allow “to track the locations of federal employees and contractors, build records of personal information for blackmail and corporate espionage «. “The risks are real,” Trump added.
In addition, he has criticized that the application “censors” content that the CCP considers “politically sensitive”, such as those related to the protests in Hong Kong or the Chinese Executive’s treatment of Uighurs and other Muslim minorities. “It can be used for disinformation campaigns that benefit the CCP, ” he noted.
