Lawyers for TikTok have pleaded with a US federal judge to delay the Trump administration’s ban of the popular video sharing program from app stores set to take effect later on Sunday. The ban on new downloads of TikTok, which has about 100 million users in the US, was delayed once by the government. In addition, Mr Hall argued that a ban would prevent existing users from automatically receiving security updates, eroding national security. “This is the most immediate national security threat,” Mr Schwei argued. The two sides of the TikTok deal have also appeared at odds over the corporate structure of TikTok Global.

Source: Irish Independent September 27, 2020 19:07 UTC