Washington-ALsharqiya November 11: ByteDance, the company that owns the TikTok app, announced that it has approached the US Court of Appeals with a request to challenge the Trump administration’s order to ban the use of the app in the country.
This step by the company comes after the US authorities had claimed that the TikTok application could leak US citizens' data to the Chinese authorities, which the company owner denied, and after Trump signed an executive order in which he gave nearly a month to stop any deals with ByteDance. In the US states.
And the US Department of Commerce had announced earlier that, as of November 12, the application of TikTok will be banned in the country unless the company that owns the application resolves problems related to national security within the deadline that was given to it, and in late October the Wall Street Journal reported that the state court Pennsylvania ordered the banning of the department issued temporarily.
ByteDance, on its part, indicated in its recent request to the US Court of Appeals that it has worked actively with the US Foreign Investment Commission (CFIUS) for a year, and will continue to work with it to address concerns about national security threats in America. Clarity about the acceptance of our proposed solutions, and the approaching deadline of the deadline previously set of November 12, we had no choice but to go to court to give us an additional 30-day deadline, to protect our rights and preserve our more than 1,500 employees in the United States.
