The United States House of Representatives has ordered all workers to must remove the TikTok application from any of the terminals provided by the Chamberas we can read in The Vergewhere we also see how it will also not be downloadable in the future on any of the provided devices.
This is because TikTok is treated as a high security risk for users due to a lack of transparency as to how ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, manages its users’ data. However, from TikTok they are not entirely satisfied with this movement.
As explained by Brooke Oberwetter, spokesperson for TikTok, this has been more of a political move than a practical solution to public concernssince, to begin with, the impact of this ban is minimal given the small number of terminals that have been banned from having TikTok.
Be that as it may, this is another precedent for something that could happen, and it would be a general ban of TikTok in the United States, Well, it is not the first time that it has been suggested that TikTok had connections with the Chinese government and was spying on American users.
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Jordi Bercial
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