TikTok begins to have the hours counted in the Biden Administration. The White House has given federal agencies 30 days to ensure that their workers will not have the TikTok social media app on any government device. The director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, has indicated in a guide that contemplates few exceptions that agencies must identify the presence of the application, establish an internal process to limit the use, eliminate and deauthorize the applications. facilities and prohibit Internet traffic of information technologies belonging to the agencies.
Within 90 days, agencies must include in contracts that the app cannot be used on devices and must cancel any contracts that require use of the app. In December, TikTok – owned by the Chinese company ByteDance – made a change to its privacy policy, which gave Chinese employees access to the data of European users, although it is unclear exactly what data these employees have access to. and which employees are involved.
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In addition to the United States, Canada and the European Union have also announced the prohibition of officials from using TikTok on official mobiles, due to suspicions surrounding cybersecurity and protection of the data of its users. However, TikTok has rejected such a possibility and exceptionally the decision adopted by the community institutions last week as “wrong” and based “on misconceptions”.
