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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act is a United States federal law that prohibits the use of TikTok on all federal government devices. [1] Originally introduced as a stand-alone bill in 2020, it was signed into law as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 on December 29, 2022, by President Joe Biden.
On December 30, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act, prohibiting the use of the app on devices owned by the federal government, with some exceptions. [8] Days after the Biden administration called on ByteDance, which owns TikTok, to sell the platform or face a ban, law enforcement officials disclosed that an ...
The federal government and 27 state governments have banned popular China-based video sharing mobile app TikTok from government-issued devices.
And yes, bosses at private companies and corporations can ban workers from using TikTok on work-issued devices “more easily than the federal government,” J.S. Nelson, a law professor and ...
📱 TikTok is already banned on government devices. How is this different? TikTok is banned from federal government phones and state government devices because of similar security concerns.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [123] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [124] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [125]
The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a bill from Senator Josh Hawley banning federal employees from using video-sharing app TikTok on government-issued devices, amid threats from the ...
TikTok argued this feature was set up as an "anti-spam" measure but removed the feature regardless. [3] The Trump Administration restricted the use of TikTok within the United States government and military, instructing officials to delete the application from devices owned by the government. [4] [5] [6]