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Montana's unprecedented of Chinese short-video app, TikTok, was supposed to take effect on January 1, 2024, but as reported by , US District Judge Donald Molloy issued a preliminary injunction just one month ahead to block said ban. This means that for now, ByteDance and app stores are allowed to continue serving TikTok to users within the Montana state, without being fined $10,000 daily from the start date of the ban.
The judge was quoted saying the ban "oversteps state power and infringes on the constitutional rights of users" — echoing the legal challenge by five TikTok creators on the day after the bill was signed back in May, as well as another lawsuit filed by the platform's owner, , later on in the same month.
The relevant bill was originally drafted based on claims that this Chinese app would share US users' personal data with the Chinese government, to which ByteDance had since the presidency of . "TikTok US user data is stored in the US, with strict controls on employee access," the company claimed back in August 2020 — and again via a earlier this year, with reference to "Project Texas" for safeguarding US user data with help from Oracle.
To date, no other US state had passed a similar bill to bar TikTok, and the outcome of Montana's case may hold the key to TikTok's fate across the rest of the country.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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The judge was quoted saying the ban "oversteps state power and infringes on the constitutional rights of users" — echoing the legal challenge by five TikTok creators on the day after the bill was signed back in May, as well as another lawsuit filed by the platform's owner, , later on in the same month.
The relevant bill was originally drafted based on claims that this Chinese app would share US users' personal data with the Chinese government, to which ByteDance had since the presidency of . "TikTok US user data is stored in the US, with strict controls on employee access," the company claimed back in August 2020 — and again via a earlier this year, with reference to "Project Texas" for safeguarding US user data with help from Oracle.
To date, no other US state had passed a similar bill to bar TikTok, and the outcome of Montana's case may hold the key to TikTok's fate across the rest of the country.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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