State of Montana responds in TikTok lawsuit

The State of Montana, through its Attorney General Austin Knudsen, called on a federal judge today to keep Montana’s law banning TikTok in the state in effect while the case proceeds in federal court, citing well-documented concerns over the app’s massive data-harvesting practices and access to that data granted to Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials.

The Montana legislature passed and Governor Greg Gianforte signed Senate Bill 419 (SB 419), which requires TikTok to stop operating in the state and prohibits mobile application stores from making TikTok available for download starting on Jan...