USA wants to take drastic measures after the appearance of hot air balloons provenance spies china in its airspace and one of the first actions was to ban the application TikTok on official US government mobile devices.
The US government fears that the app owned by the chinese company ByteDance can be used for espionage purposes and although the Congress A law was already approved in December in order to prohibit its installation and updating on cell phones used by government employees, in Texas they seek to go a step further.
the texan governor Gregg Abbott announced a state security plan for state-issued mobile devices in order to develop policies that prohibit the installation of TikTok and other technologies of Chinese origin.
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Abbott ordered the immediate uninstallation of Chinese technology programs. “The IT department of each agency must strictly enforce this prohibition,” the governor said.
The popular social network is accused of sharing data on its American users to the Beijing government through its parent company ByteDance.
In addition to TikTok, the US government also intends to ban apps such as Alibaba and Tencent, and has already banned the use of mobile devices made by Chinese companies Huawei and ZTE.
The government also blacklists Russian antivirus software publisher Kaspersky on charges of ties to the Kremlin.
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Who does these bans affect?
The instructions have been shared with the state departments of Public Security and Information Resources to identify, track and control state-owned devices, which can range from restricting access to app stores to remote app wipes. , if they are considered to be violating the rules.
The measure primarily affects Texas government employees, as well as third-party contractors who use personal devices to conduct government business.
The restrictions also extend to public universities where students are limited in their access to social networks such as TikTok while connected to the school’s WiFi. The University of Texas at Austin has been among the first institutions to block access to these applications since last January.
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