It is now illegal to have TikTok downloaded on a device issued by the federal government this coming fiscal year after President Biden signed the measure in the sprawling federal spending bill.
TikTok would be banned from most U.S. government devices under a government spending bill Congress unveiled early Tuesday, the latest push by American lawmakers against the Chinese-owned social media app.Having TikTok on a device issued by the federal government has become illegal under a
If you count yourself among its users and you're wondering how this crackdown might affect you, here is what you need to know:Probably not — unless you're a federal government employee who uses a work phone to browse TikTok. The White House, the Pentagon, the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department already prohibit staff from having TikTok on government-issued devices, so this ban just extends the rule for all U.S. government employees.
So the ban on federal government devices is an incremental restriction: Most drastic measures have not advanced, since the efforts lacked the political will, or"I think some concern about TikTok is warranted," said Julian McAuley, a professor of computer science at the University of California San Diego, who noted that the main difference between TikTok and other social media apps is that TikTok is much more driven by user-specific recommendations.
"While ByteDance claims that it maintains its operations in the United States separately, there is no easy way to determine the extent to which that claim is true," said Sameer Patil, a professor at the University of Utah who studies user privacy online.in BuzzFeed found the TikTok owner ByteDance once used another app the company owned to push content sympathetic to the Chinese government. That app, which was separate from TikTok, no longer exists.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States , a powerful interagency federal panel that reviewing foreign investment in the U.S., began examining TikTok during the Trump administration and the probe is still underway.to be sold to an American company, something the Chinese government will likely forcefully oppose, as it did when such a sale was floated during the Trump years.
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