ev beginning, shou zi chew, the ceo of the most-downloaded app in the past two years, face intense scrutiny. my time is up, and if this committee gets its way, tiktok s time is up. reporter: the tiktok executive tried to reassure lawmakers with a commitment to safety. there are more than 150 million americans who love our platform, and we know we have a responsibility to protect them. reporter: and he insisted the video sharing platform is not an arm of the chinese government, despite being owned by parent company bytedance, based in beijing. has bytedance spied on american citizens? i don t think that buy-in is the right way to describe it. reporter: chew is working to build a firewall to protect user data in the u.s. i have neither seen no evidence the chinese government has access to data. i find that preposterous.
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December 29, 2020 05:38:42 pm
The United States government on Monday appealed a federal judge’s order that blocked the Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok that would have effectively barred its use in the US.
On December 7, United States District Court Judge Carl Nichols of the DC Circuit granted an injunction, enjoining the Secretary of Commerce from prohibiting transactions between TikTok and U.S. citizens.
The appeal will continue a battle that began when President Donald Trump signed an August 2020 Executive Order, which identified the Chinese application as a potential threat to national security, foreign policy, and the United States economy.