US bans TikTok on all federal government devices
Dec 31, 2022
Washington [US], December 31: The Guardian newspaper on December 31 reported that ByteDance 's TikTok app ( China ) was banned on all US federal government devices, with limited exceptions, after President Joe Biden signed a budget spending bill. fiscal year 2023.
The new law includes a provision banning the TikTok app due to increased security concerns.
The ban, passed by the US Senate last week, is a major development against the world's fastest-growing social media platform, amid concerns by opponents that data stored in China could be hacked. access by the government.
Many departments of the US government will issue regulations to implement the ban in the next 2 months. This means federal government employees are required to remove the TikTok app from authorized devices, unless it is used for national security or law enforcement operations.
Previously, governors in more than 10 states in the US had issued similar bans. This week, Congress passed a resolution banning TikTok on devices for congressmen.
TikTok has not yet responded. In a statement issued after the ban in the House of Representatives, TikTok said it was a "political move that has nothing to do with national security interests".
Meanwhile, there is a wave of calls for a complete ban on TikTok in the US, with the bill being proposed by senator Marco Rubio. The bill reflects the moves of the previous government, after former President Donald Trump issued an executive order in August 2020 banning US companies from doing business with ByteDance.
The order was later revoked by President Biden in June 2021 on the condition that the US foreign investment committee conduct a security review of TikTok and recommend a resolution. This investigation is still ongoing.
Although headquartered in China, ByteDance has long said that all US user data is stored in data centers in Virginia and backed up in Singapore .
However, political pressure increased after BuzzFeed reported in June that ByteDance employees in China had repeatedly accessed TikTok user data in the US between September 2021 and January 2022.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper
