U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote Friday that foreign adversaries could merely replace Chinese-owned TikTok with a similar app to surveil Americans, as the high court ruled to uphold a ban on the social media platform from app stores.
The forthcoming Trump administration will have to decide on whether to keep the ban intact. It goes into effect on Jan. 19.
In a concurring opinion, Gorsuch wrote that foreign adversaries could use another app to surveil the U.S. population and obtain sensitive data if TikTok is no longer used.
“Whether this law will succeed in achieving its ends, I do not know. A determined foreign adversary may just seek to replace one lost surveillance application with another,” Gorsuch wrote, concurring with the high court’s 9–0 vote to uphold the ban….