{"id":17622,"date":"2020-03-14T14:27:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rbsitsoftwaresolution.com\/blog\/senate-bill-seeks-to-ban-chinese-app-tiktok-from-government-work-phones.html"},"modified":"2020-03-14T14:27:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T14:27:25","slug":"senate-bill-seeks-to-ban-chinese-app-tiktok-from-government-work-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/senate-bill-seeks-to-ban-chinese-app-tiktok-from-government-work-phones.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate bill seeks to ban Chinese app TikTok from government work phones"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) introduced legislation to further restrict the use of the popular viral video app TikTok <\/a> on government devices.<\/p>\n

The bill seeks to expand existing federal guidance prohibiting use of TikTok to encompass any U.S. government-issued device. The legislation is the most recent effort by U.S. lawmakers to limit Chinese-built tech software, devices and components for fear that those products have the potential to be leveraged by the Chinese government.<\/p>\n

While other Asia-based social apps have struggled to gain a global foothold, TikTok quickly amassed more than a billion users worldwide and became a household name alongside American social media stalwarts like Facebook and YouTube. The app is owned by Beijing-based tech startup ByteDance.<\/p>\n

Growth does appear to be slowing<\/a> for ByteDance, but the app\u2019s ubiquity raises alarms among China hawks like Hawley, who warns that the app could be compelled to share data with the Chinese government. In a release with the bill\u2019s text, Sen. Scott called TikTok a \u201crisk to our networks and a threat to our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs many of our federal agencies have already recognized, TikTok is a major security risk to the United States, and it has no place on government devices,\u201d Hawley said.<\/p>\n

The bill comes as the Trump administration prepares a draft order<\/a> that would ban federal agencies from buying foreign-made drones, another effort to curtail Chinese technology in the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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TikTok\u2019s national security scrutiny tightens as US Navy reportedly bans popular social app<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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