This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Hibapress
Tiktok was back Thursday in Apple and Google application shops almost a month after the entry into force of a law requiring its owner that he sends it under penalty of prohibition on American territory .
The short video sharing platform, which claims some 170 million users in the United States, may be prohibited for national security reasons related to the data it collects from its users.
Property of the Chinese group bytedance, the fate of the ultra-popular application in young people is uncertain in the United States.
Signed by Joe Biden and adopted to an overwhelming majority by the Congress, a law passed in 2024 to force Bytedance to sell the application under penalty of prohibition on American territory came into force on January 19, the day before ‘Investiture of Donald Trump.
The platform had then been inaccessible for a few hours, and had completely disappeared from the application shops.
The service was then restored on January 21, at the start of the second term of the American president, Trump having ordered a 75 -day suspension of the application of the law in the hope of finding a solution with Beijing, and proposed that Bytedance grants 50% of Tiktok’s capital in the United States in return for the non-application of the law.
But from Apple and Google had not submitted Tiktok available in their “App Stores”, the law providing for very heavy fines for Internet suppliers and application shops, up to 5,000 dollars per user for the latter .
Donald Trump gave Tiktok until the beginning of April to sell his American activities.
