TikTok is taking this legal action because it has a deadline of January 19, 2025, set by a law signed by President Joe Biden earlier this year. The law says that ByteDance must sell TikTok to an American company or risk being banned across the country. The platform has urged the Court to intervene immediately, claiming that the ban poses no immediate national security threat and that halting the law will not materially harm the government.
Earlier this year, President Joe Biden signed a law to ban or require the sale of TikTok, saying it was because of worries about national security. The US government believes that TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, is connected to the Chinese government, which makes people afraid that Beijing might get access to user information.
The platform’s repeated efforts to block the law through the courts have so far been unsuccessful. Recently, a US appeals court rejected TikTok’s previous request for an injunction, paving the way for the issue to escalate to the Supreme Court.
TikTok has always said that it doesn’t cause any security problems and has strong ways to protect the data of its users in the US. But some news reports found that user data was kept on servers in China, which made the debate about this issue even stronger.
