Despite trying it’s best to stay innocent, the US government is in full swing to ban TikTok in the country.
Some states have already banned the app from it’s government-owned devices, while a new order from the House of Chief Administrative Officer has just prohibited all lawmakers and staff from using TikTok.
Banning TikTok on Govt Devices
Just because it’s affiliated with a country (China) against which the US is running a cold war now, TikTok is facing a lot of heat from the officials. Several US states have already banned the app on their government-owned devices, while others are regulating it very strictly.
Two years ago, in Donald Trump’s administration, the US government almost had TikTok’s US division to be sold to a local company, but the deal eventually fell apart. Yet, TikTok promised to route all the domestic traffic through Oracle’s local servers and even delete the US users’ data timely.
Well, this, too, hasn’t appeased the US government, as the lawmakers approved an omnibus spending bill last week to ban TikTok on executive branch devices. While it’s still pending final approval, the US House’s Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) has reportedly asked all the lawmakers and their staff to delete TikTok from their devices.
Sent via an email order, the officer cited “high risk due to a number of security issues” for the call. A number of security researchers and governments have flagged TikTok as a security concern based on the volume of data it sucks and for being a Chinese-run app.
Though TikTok is regularly addressing all the security issues raised by everyone, the Senate isn’t satisfied with it’s operations – and voted to approve the No-TikTok bill on all government devices across the US.
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