The Justice Department filed the appeal seeking to enforce a
ban on TikTok by President Donald Trump, who has argued that the app's Chinese
parent company may use TikTok for espionage and to spread disinformation.
The filing did not include arguments for enforcing the ban,
which had been rejected earlier this month by US District Judge Carl Nichols
and in a parallel case filed in Pennsylvania.
Nichols said TikTok's lawyers had demonstrated that the
Commerce Department likely overstepped its authority by seeking to ban the
popular social media app and "acted in an arbitrary and capricious manner
by failing to consider obvious alternatives."
The White House claims TikTok is a national security risk
because of potential links to the Beijing government through its Chinese owner
ByteDance.
Trump's order said the action was necessary to "protect
our national security" and claimed the personal data of TikTok users could
be used by Beijing.
TikTok has repeatedly defended itself against allegations of
data transfers to the Chinese government, saying it stores user information on
servers in the United States and Singapore.
TikTok has a further fight on its hands over an August 14
executive order from Trump to force ByteDance to sell its US operations to an
American buyer.
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