Despite the ongoing ban threats from the US government, TikTok has continued to grow in popularity. In fact, the attempts to ban the app seem to have had the opposite effect. Instead of driving users away, the ban talk has made more Americans curious about TikTok and drawn more people to ...
But a court challenge's success is not guaranteed. The law's opponents, which include advocacy organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, maintain that the government hasn't come close to justifying banning TikTok, while others say national-security claims could st...
A national TikTok ban isstill possibleif the US government follows through with its plans. State-level bans are less likely to last or be enforceable in the long term.
TikTok and a group of content creators are challenging a law passed by Congress in April that forces TikTok to find a non-Chinese buyer by Jan. 19 or be banned in the United States.
TikTok is still transitioning to Oracle, which means it is currently also "deleting historical protected US user data stored on non-Oracle servers." When this is complete, later in 2023, Chew says, there will be "no way for the Chinese government to access [US user data] or compel access...
The U.S. government ordered app stores to stop distributing or updating TikTok earlier this month, responding to President Donald Trump’s August executive order. This order banned everyone in the U.S. from doing business with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, allegedly due to security...
Video-sharing app TikTok has gone offline in the United States, just hours before a new law banning the platform was due to come into effect.
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ByteDance previously said it would not sell, but TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew is expected to attend Trump’s inauguration with a prime seating location. Why is TikTok’s future in the US so unclear? The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday unanimously upheld the federal law that banned TikTok ...
Hours after his inauguration Monday, Trump issued an executive order delaying for 75 days the enforcement of a controversial law, which requires that TikTok be banned in the US unless it sells to a buyer from America or one of its allies. ...