US Senate approves bill to ban TikTok on government devices
to approve the bill, which will ban the TikTok app on all government-owned phones and other devices. Its approval emphasizes authorities' concerns that the app's China-based parent company ByteDance could share information gathered from US users with the Chinese government. Just last month, FBI Director Chris Wraylawmakers that the Chinese government could use TikTok to launch"influence operations" or to"technically compromise" millions of devices.
While the bill aims to prohibit the installation of TikTok on government devices, it carves out exceptions for"law enforcement activities, national security interests and activities, and security researchers," according to . Hawley called the app a"Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party" and said it has no place on government devices until it completely cuts ties with China. Meanwhile, TikTok spokesperson Brooke Oberwetter toldthat Hawley"has moved forward with... a proposal which does nothing to advance US national security interests.
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