Security News > 2020 > August > TikTok Sues Over Ban Ordered by Trump

As tensions soared between the world's two biggest economies, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on August 6 giving Americans 45 days to stop doing business with TikTok's Chinese parent company ByteDance - effectively setting a deadline for a sale of the app to a US company.

"Today we are filing a complaint in federal court challenging the administration's efforts to ban TikTok in the US," the company said in a blog post.

Trump claims TikTok could be used by China to track the locations of federal employees, build dossiers on people for blackmail, and conduct corporate espionage.

Shortly after Trump announced his moves against TikTok this month, the United States slapped sanctions on Hong Kong's leader over the Chinese security clampdown after last year's pro-democracy demonstrations.

The Trump administration has also given ByteDance a 90-day deadline to divest TikTok before the app is banned in the United States.

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