틱톡 "트럼프 행정명령은 권한남용"…연방법원에 취소 청구<br /><br />Chinese social media platform TikTok is challenging the Trump administration's order to ban the video app by taking it to court in California.<br />Lee Seung-jae reports.<br />Challenging the Trump administration's plans to ban it in the U.S. effective mid-September,... TikTok is taking its fight to court,... filing a lawsuit Monday against the administration.<br />Filing the suit in a federal court in the Central District of California,... TikTok alleges that President Trump's executive order is “not rooted in bona fide national security concerns."<br />The company also says the U.S. government did not conduct a fair process in deciding that the app needed to be banned in the U.S.,... and that its Chinese parent company ByteDance must divest its assets in the United States.<br />The lawsuit also includes TikTok's claims that it stores American user information in the U.S. and Singapore,... and stresses its "extraordinary measures" to protect its users' privacy.<br />TikTok also says that "by banning TikTok with no notice or opportunity to be heard, the executive order violates the due process protections of the Fifth Amendment."<br />The lawsuit has been filed against President Trump, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the Commerce Department.<br />This is the latest escalation in a long-running feud that could result in TikTok either being banned in the U.S. or being sold to an American company.<br />The Trump administration has long alleged TikTok may pose a national security threat due to its links to the Chinese government.<br />But some watchers claim TikTok is just caught in the crossfire of the Washington-Beijing trade war.<br />Others say that, with ByteDance and Microsoft reportedly in talks over a possible deal,... the legal challenge could serve as a way for the Chinese company to gain some leverage and boost its price tag.<br />Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.<br />
