Yet another government agency has given TikTok the boot.
The Transportation Security Administration (Tsa) said Sunday that it has stopped letting employees use the micro-video app -- which is owned by Chinese tech giant Bytedance -- to create promotional and social posts.
The AP reports that the ban was instituted after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-ny) wrote a letter to Tsa Administrator David Pekoske outlining ongoing national security concerns as well as an earlier TikTok ban instituted by the Department Of Homeland Security on all government mobile devices. In November, the U.S. government launched a national security probe into the app, amid charges that it was collecting data from its young user base, as well as censoring content in accordance with the aims of the Chinese government. In his letter, Schumer noted that per Chinese law, companies must cooperate with the government’s intelligence collection practices.
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The Transportation Security Administration (Tsa) said Sunday that it has stopped letting employees use the micro-video app -- which is owned by Chinese tech giant Bytedance -- to create promotional and social posts.
The AP reports that the ban was instituted after Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-ny) wrote a letter to Tsa Administrator David Pekoske outlining ongoing national security concerns as well as an earlier TikTok ban instituted by the Department Of Homeland Security on all government mobile devices. In November, the U.S. government launched a national security probe into the app, amid charges that it was collecting data from its young user base, as well as censoring content in accordance with the aims of the Chinese government. In his letter, Schumer noted that per Chinese law, companies must cooperate with the government’s intelligence collection practices.
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- 2/24/2020
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
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