The Justice Department claims TikTok is collecting data on U.S. users and their views on social issues like gun control and abortion to send to engineers in China.
The Justice Department alleges TikTok is gathering information on U.S. users and their views on social issues, including gun control, abortion and religion, to send to engineers in China. According to documents filed with the federal appeals court in Washington, the DOJ claims TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, used Lark, an internal web-suite system, to allow TikTok employees to talk directly with ByteDance engineers in China, the Associated Press reported.
The latest court documents come ahead of the government's legal battle in which it seeks to defend the potential U.S. ban of the video sharing social media platform. President Biden signed a bipartisan bill in April that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok or else the platform would face a ban in the U.S. starting in January.
Federal officials are urging the court to allow a classified version of the legal brief that would not be available to ByteDance or TikTok, according to the Associated Press. TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek said that nothing in the redacted brief "changes the fact that the Constitution is on our side." "The TikTok ban would silence 170 million Americans’ voices, violating the 1st Amendment," Haurek said.
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