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according toReutersAccording to reports, the US government’s ban on TikTok has again escalated. This time, the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the House of Representatives issued a document to all members of Congress and aides, asking them to eliminate the TikTok app from their devices on the grounds that it “has multiple security issues”, which are considered extremely high risk. Anyone found to have TikTok on their phone will be contacted directly to ensure the app is deleted and future downloads banned.
This is the US government’s latest move against TikTok, he continuesBills recently approved by the Senate and the House of Representatives, which requires that cell phones owned by the US government cannot install the app. And not just the federal government, but as many as 19 states at the state level have completely or partially banned TikTok on government-owned mobile devices.
Opponents of TikTok within the US government were concerned that the app was being used by China as a research tool. FBI Director Chris Wray even directly called it a “Chinese Communist Party Trojan horse” and said he would cut it off before cutting off relations with China completely. It shouldn’t be on any government mobile device. ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok, naturally denied the allegations and announced that it would transmit all online information through Oracle servers in the United States and delete all American user information from its servers. However, just a few days ago, ByteDanceSpied on the data of US users, including reporters, fired four employeesmaking it more difficult to dispel doubts from the outside world.
