틱톡 "트럼프 행정명령은 권한남용"…연방법원에 취소 청구

Chinese social media platform TikTok is challenging the Trump administration's order to ban the video app by taking it to court in California.
Lee Seung-jae reports.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
The lawsuit has been filed against President Trump, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and the Commerce Department.
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.
The Trump administration has long alleged TikTok may pose a national security threat due to its links to the Chinese government.
But some watchers claim TikTok is just caught in the crossfire of the Washington-Beijing trade war.
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.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.