On Sunday, a Washington based U.S. judge announced that he would determine whether to block a Trump administration order barring Google and Apple from offering TikTok on its app store.
After a 90-minute hearing, District Judge Carl Nichols said that he would release a public order regarding the ban by the end of the day.
Tiktok is set to be barred from the app store at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Sunday.
U.S. authorities have repeatedly voiced national security worries due to fears that China’s government could acquire personal information from approximately 100 million Americans who use TikTok.
On Sept. 20, ByteDance announced that a deal had been formed between Oracle and Walmart to take stakes in a new company called TikTok Global that would look after U.S. based operations.
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