Whether for professional or personal reasons, employees of the United States House of Representatives (the US equivalent of the National Assembly) will now be banned from using TikTok.
The measure was formalized by Catherine L. Szpindor, the Chamber’s administrative director. She indicates that the department in charge of cybersecurity judged that the Chinese application presented a major risk for users due to the number of security vulnerabilities.
Prohibition to use or download
In effect, members and employees of the House of Representatives will no longer be able to download TikTok on their work phones. If they already have it on their mobile, they are asked to delete the app as soon as possible.
This ban only reinforces the tensions that currently exist between the United States and the Chinese social network. A bill to ban TikTok it was featured notably by several US elected officials. The latter proposes preventing social media activities from originating from or being influenced by a country considered an enemy of the United States, listing China among them.
the The FBI also expressed concern. possible abuses of TikTok. The US intelligence service accuses the platform of spying and not knowing how to properly manage the personal data of its more than one billion users.
Source: BFM TV
