A bipartisan group of over 50 lawmakers and more than 20 states on Aug. 2 submitted their support for the Justice Department’s efforts to enforce a law mandating that China-based ByteDance divest its U.S. TikTok assets or face a ban. The ban is currently not in force following a court challenge by TikTok.
Reps. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.) and Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-Ill.), the chair and ranking member of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led the filing of an amicus brief against TikTok’s legal challenges.
“TikTok is a threat to national security and consumer privacy,” the state attorneys general of Montana and Virginia said in another amicus brief for the case.
The lawmakers raised concerns that ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is a Chinese firm subject to Chinese law, which requires it to turn over data collected through TikTok to monitor American users. […]
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