Advisor, Robert O’Brien, stated that the CCP uses TikTok and other PRC-owned applications to collect personal, private, and intimate data on Americans to use for malign purposes . (5) On August 14, 2020, the President found there is credible evidence … that ByteDance, Ltd. … might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States . (6) In February 2023, the Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, stated, Our intelligence community has been very clear about [the CCP’s] efforts and intention to mold the use of [TikTok] using data in a worldview that is completely inconsistent with our own. . Deputy Attorney General Monaco also stated, I don’t use TikTok and I would not advise anybody to do so because of [national security] concerns . (7) On July 13, 2022, Federal Communications Commission Commissioner, Brendan Carr, testified before the Subcommittee on National Security of the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives that there is a unique set of national security concerns when it comes to [TikTok] . (8) On March 23, 2023, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, testified before the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that TikTok is a threat to national security that should be ended one way or another . Whereas the executive branch has sought to address the risks identified above through requiring ByteDance to divest its ownership of TikTok: (1) On August 14, 2020, the President issued an Executive order directing ByteDance to divest any assets or property used to enable or support ByteDance’s operation of the TikTok application in the United States and any data obtained or derived from TikTok application or Musical.ly application users in the United States. The Order, however, remains the subject of litigation. (2) On August 6, 2020, the President issued an Executive order (E.O. 13942) that directed the Secretary of Commerce to take actions that would have prohibited certain transactions related to TikTok in 45 days if ByteDance failed