The video-sharing app TikTok has confirmed that it will file a complaint against the US government on Monday, in response to a decree from Donald Trump accusing him of spying on behalf of Beijing and wants to ban any transactions shortly of TikTok with partners in the United States.
"We totally disagree with the administration's position that TikTok is a threat to national security," the company justifies in a blog post by ensuring that it does not initiate these proceedings "lightly".
Don't touch my data
"With this executive order threatening to ban our American operations - in the process eliminating the creation of 10,000 jobs in the United States and irreparably harming the millions of Americans who turn to this app for entertainment and a particularly vital livelihood during the pandemic - we just don't have a choice, ”the company adds.
Without tangible proof, the American president has for months been accusing the video-sharing platform, owned by the Chinese group ByteDance, of siphoning off data from American users for the benefit of Beijing.
An unfair procedure?
On August 6, he banned the application from any transaction with American partners within 45 days. The decree does not specify the practical consequences, but the ban on any transaction with the two companies could force Google and Apple to remove the two networks from their app stores, effectively preventing them from being used in the United States.
TikTok argues in its complaint that it did not have the benefit of a "due process", as guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, since the company did not have the opportunity to present its arguments before the signing of the decree.
Politics gets involved
The company also says it does not fall within the scope of the law used by Donald Trump to justify his decree, which relates to "telecommunications providers". She also believes that the administration has not taken into account any of its efforts in terms of transparency and communication.
For TikTok, the decisions of the US administration are “highly politicized”. They intervene in fact against the backdrop of growing diplomatic and trade tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Arguing threats to national security, the tenant of the White House also gave ByteDance until around mid-November to sell the American operations of the network, under penalty of blocking it in the United States.
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