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TikTok on the Clock: Proposed Legislation to Unwind TikTok from Ownership Group

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On March 13, 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act (the Act) in a bipartisan vote, which would require the popular social media site TikTok...more

Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig PLLC

“Why Can’t We Just Ban It?”: How The American Government Has Bungled The TikTok Ban

Over the past two months, the national security threats posed by the TikTok app have been more exposed than the individuals posting the videos to TikTok. Yet despite those risks, Americans continue to post content to the app,...more

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Biden Signs Executive Order to Protect Personal Data from Foreign Adversaries

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The U.S. government's efforts to secure sensitive personal data against foreign adversaries, primarily with an eye toward China, continue. On June 9, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Protecting...more

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EO prohibits U.S. persons from engaging in certain transactions involving eight Chinese apps

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On 5 January 2021, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order (EO) 13971 on "Addressing the Threat Posed By Applications and Other Software Developed or Controlled By Chinese Companies," which prohibits U.S. persons from...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Presidential EO Prohibits Transactions with Chinese Companies Alipay, WeChat Pay, Tencent QQ, and Others

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On January 5, 2021, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions with eight “connected software applications” developed or controlled by Chinese companies. The...more

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Another Court Loss for President’s TikTok Ban, Questions Loom About the Future

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On December 7, 2020, Judge Carl Nichols of the D.C. District Court issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing a ban on the social media site TikTok. The opinion from the D.C. District Court...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

TikTok Legal Drama Continues To Unfold Across Multiple Courtrooms And Federal Agencies

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The Trump Administration has encountered further setbacks in its efforts to prevent Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. (“ByteDance”) from providing its popular social media app TikTok in the U.S. For background:.....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 10.19.2020 | Top Story: ConocoPhillips Buys Oil Producer Concho Resources in Deal Worth Nearly $10B

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ConocoPhillips is doubling down on its commitment to the Midland basin by buying Concho Resources Inc. in “an all-stock transaction valued at $9.7 billion,” even “as the American shale-drilling industry is facing a downturn...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.9.2020 | Top Story: New Jobless Claims Top 800,000 Again As U.S. Recovery Stalls

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Yesterday’s jobless numbers were down a bit from a week earlier but still topped 800,000 for the 4th week in a row. “Claims remain above the pre-pandemic peak of 695,000 and are higher than in any previous recession for...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.5.2020 | Top Story: Jobs Report Details Alarming Rise in Long-Term U.S. Unemployment

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Along with the topline numbers (661,000 jobs added in September and unemployment rate declined to 7.9%), Friday’s U.S Jobs Report delivered the rough news that 2.4 million Americans have now been out of work for 27 weeks or...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 7, September 2020

U.S. Judge Halts Trump's TikTok Ban, Hours Before It was Set to Start - "John Hall, an attorney for TikTok, said that the app, with some 100 million American users, is a 'modern day version of the town square' and shutting...more

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The Courts Step In To Protect TikTok From The Trump Administration

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In a dramatic Sunday morning hearing (conducted remotely via telephone), lawyers for TikTok and the Trump Administration battled over whether the government’s order banning TikTok from the Apple and Google app stores would...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.28.2020 | Top Story: Federal Court Halts White House Ban on TIkTok App-Store Downloads

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A federal judge has delivered another win for TikTok over the weekend, temporarily blocking a White House ban “on new downloads of the video-sharing network, which would have gone into effect at 11:59 p.m. in Washington.” The...more

Dickinson Wright

DW China Trade Update (35th Edition)

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The US Commerce Department releases scope of bans on Tiktok and WeChat - This past August, our China Team reported on President Trump's Executive Order 13942, which placed restrictions on any transactions with two of the most...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.24.2020 | Top Story: JPMorgan Nears $1B Settlement Over Alleged Spoofing

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JPMorgan is preparing to finalize a deal with federal prosecutors and regulators in which the bank would pay nearly $1 billion to “settle civil and criminal charges that its traders rigged futures and securities markets”...more

Perkins Coie

TikTok and WeChat—New Developments Delay Prohibitions

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Sunday, September 20, 2020, was intended to be the day on which prohibitions would go into effect on ByteDance Ltd. (ByteDance) and Tencent Holdings Ltd. (Tencent) and their subsidiaries—makers of the TikTok and WeChat apps,...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Executive Orders on Pause: WeChat and TikTok Bans Temporarily Suspended

On Saturday, two actions put a stop, at least temporarily, to the U.S. shutdown of the popular social media apps WeChat and TikTok. WeChat - On September 19, 2020, a California Federal Magistrate Judge issued a...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Certainties and Uncertainties Under China’s New Unreliable Entity List

On September 19, 2020, China took a new strategic position in its ongoing trade confrontation with the United States. The Ministry of Commerce of the PRC (“MOFCOM”) issued Regulations on Unreliable Entity List (“UEL”) and...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 6, September 2020

TikTok Will Partner with Oracle in the United States After Microsoft Loses Bid - "TikTok and Oracle will become business partners in the United States — a deal meant to satisfy the Trump administration's national security...more

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Financial Daily Dose 9.21.2020 | Top Story: White House Signs Off on Deal for Oracle & Walmart to Take Stake in TikTok

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The White House has given its crucial imprimatur to a deal for Oracle (and Walmart) to take a stake in Chinese video app TikTok, “an agreement that will delay the U.S. government’s threat to block the popular app in the...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

WeChat and TikTok Sanctions Not to Come Into Effect Sept. 20

Late last week, a Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued an order granting a motion for a nationwide preliminary injunction forbidding implementation of sanctions against...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Commerce Department Identifies Prohibited Transactions Involving WeChat and TikTok

Last week, the Department of Commerce took steps to implement sanctions targeting China’s mobile applications WeChat, owned by Tencent Holdings Ltd. (“WeChat Sanctions”), and TikTok, owned by ByteDance Ltd. (“ByteDance”)...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.18.2020 | Top Story: Walmart Back in the Mix for Stake in Oracle/TikTok Deal

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The latest on the potential Oracle/TikTok deal includes news that the Treasury Department has added requirements addressing “how TikTok’s data and source code would be handled and secured” to any potential deal that the...more

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Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 5, September 2020 (Featuring Insights Video on the Trump/Twitter Feud over Section 230)

A New Lawsuit Against Trump’s Section 230 Executive Order Argues It Chills Speech about Voting - "The suit accuses the president of using the order to retaliate against Twitter, infringing on the public's right to receive...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Financial Daily Dose 9.8.2020 | Top Story: Markets Slide Amidst So-So Jobs Report and Tech Reset

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Last Friday’s US Jobs Report saw unemployment fall to 8.4%, but the end of federal aid programs and a solid-but-not-gangbusters 1.4 million jobs gained in August leads many to fear a much worse employment picture ahead....more

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