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The No TikTok on Government Devices Act was originally introduced in 2020 by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and passed the United States Senate by unanimous consent on August 6, 2020. [3] The bill ( S. 1143 ) was reintroduced on April 15, 2021, by Senator Hawley and it passed the Senate by unanimous consent again on December 14, 2022.
The UK government and Parliament banned TikTok from staff work devices in 2023, as has the European Commission. The BBC also advised staff to delete TikTok from corporate phones because of ...
As of April 2023, [29] [30] at least 34 out of 50 states have announced or enacted bans on state government agencies, employees, and contractors using TikTok on government-issued devices. State bans only affect government employees and do not prohibit civilians from having or using the app on their personal devices.
TikTok and its Chinese parent company are asking the United States government to take a closer look at legislation that could ban the social media platform in the states.. On Monday, TikTok and ...
In December 2022, Gov. Greg Abbott banned the use of the app on government-issued cellphones and laptops, joining more than 30 U.S. states that enacted similar measures due to cybersecurity concerns.
TikTok is already banned in a handful of countries and from government-issued devices in a number of others, due to official worries that the app poses privacy and cybersecurity concerns.
The federal government argued that it was fair for Congress to set a nine-month deadline for ByteDance to divest from TikTok or have TikTok banned from U.S. app stores, citing “serious concerns ...
The federal government and 27 state governments have banned popular China-based video sharing mobile app TikTok from government-issued devices.