WAS SHINGTON (Reuters) – WASHINGTON The judge said he plans to make a decision later Sunday on whether the Trump administration should sue Apple Paul Inc. and Google of Alphabet Inc. in the U.S. The Chinese-owned short video sharing app is to be banned from downloading tickets in the App Stores.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said after a 90-minute hearing Sunday morning that he plans to issue a public order the next day. The Commerce Department ticket ok app store ban will take effect from 11:59 a.m. EDT (0359 GMT).
Ticket OK’s lawyer John E. Hall argued during the hearing that the ban was “unprecedented” and “irrational.”
“What does it mean to ban this app store tonight when negotiations are underway that could make it unnecessary?” H Hall asked during the hearing. “It simply came to our notice then.
“This is just one way to hit the company,” he added. “There’s just no urgency here.”
U.S. officials have expressed national security concerns that personal data collected on over 100 million Americans using the app could be leaked to the Communist Party of China government.
Byteance said on Sept. 20 that Walmart Inc. and Oracle Corp. have a preliminary deal to acquire a new company, Ticket OK Global, which will oversee U.S. operations. Negotiations are underway on the terms of the agreement and the resolution of concerns between Washington, Washington and Beijing.
U.S. The deal is pending review by the government’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
The Justice Department said the primary order for Americans to continue downloading the ticket ok application would “interfere with the president’s national security ruling; Changes in the landscape in the context of ongoing CFIUS negotiations; And continue to allow sensitive and valuable user information to flow into BitDance with respect to all new users. “
On September 19, the Commerce Department delayed giving companies one more week to finalize the deal.
Amid rising U.S.-China tensions under the Trump administration, Ticket OK argued that sanctions were “not out of real national security concerns, but out of political considerations regarding the upcoming general election.”
November, the company said, halting other transactions with ticket ok. A separate set to be implemented on the 12th has been implemented, the company said.
A second U.S. judge in Pennsylvania on Saturday rejected a bid by three ticket-blocking content creators to block the ban, while a California judge blocked a similar order from affecting Tencent Holdings’ WeChat application.
Reported by David Sherdson; Edited by Bill Burkerot
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