US Commerce Department withholds ban on TikTok

Agency: The US Commerce Department has put on hold the ban on TikTok. The decision has been implemented from Thursday night.

The US Commerce Department delayed the ban because of ‘pending further developments’ reasoning a Philadelphia court ruling from September where three prominent TikTokers had argued that the app should not be banned, reports BBC.

Currently, US has 100 million TikTok users.

US President Donald Trump tentatively supported the deal. However on Tuesday, TikTok said it had had no feedback from the US government in two months.

President Trump has said he wants TikTok to be sold to a US company.

Both he, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, have repeatedly said that the data of US users could be passed on to the Chinese government, though no evidence has been presented showing this.