federal agencies 30 days to delete TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices. Congress, the White House, U.S. armed forces and more than half of U.S. states had already banned TikTok amid concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, would give user data — such as browsing history...
In Congress, concern about the app has been bipartisan. Congress passed the “No TikTok on Government Devices Act” in December as part of a sweeping government funding package. The legislation does allow for TikTok use in certain cases, including for national security, law enforcement and resea...
TikTok, the popular social video platform owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, has been banned on government-owned devices in several states for security concerns. The latest governors to ban it are in Michigan, Nevada and Arizona.
This week, the Biden administration gave all government agency staff 30 days to delete TikTok from federal devices and systems over data security concerns. TheWhite House directivecame after the U.S. Congress officiallybanned the appon all federal government devices in December. Despite the repeated...
The U.K. banned TikTok from all devices used by government employeesas well as from devices from the “wider parliamentary network.” Citizens remain unaffected by the ban. United States Federal employees of the U.S. governmenthave been banned from having TikTok on their devices. For state emp...
TikTok has already been banned on federal government devices, including military devices. The Justice Department isinvestigatingByteDance for possibly spying on U.S. citizens, including journalists, CBS News confirmed last week. ByteDance said in a statement that it "strongly condemned" the actions of...
That is the case in some European countries and elsewhere, where governments have restricted or banned TikTok on government-issued devices. The US has gone further: not only is the short-form video-sharing app banned from federal devices, but a bill was passed by Congress and signed by US ...
Over 30 states have banned TikTok from state-issued devices. The restrictions are part of a growing movement to rein in the popular platform and, as a result, has cast the future of state tourism marketing on TikTok into uncertainty. Here’s what you nee
government devices, but people working in the government can still use the app on their personal phones. And manyuniversities have banned the app on institutional wifi and devices, a move that just forces students to use a different WiFi connection or their cellular plan to access TikTok instead...
ban on TikTok, even if it hasn’t done so yet,” Jaffer wrote in March as momentum behind a federal TikTok ban was building. “But the First Amendment would require the government to carry a heavy burden of justification.” That argument goes for Montana as much as the federal government...