{"id":8465,"date":"2022-12-30T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/us-bans-china-based-tiktok-app-on-all-federal-government-devices\/"},"modified":"2022-12-30T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T18:38:56","slug":"us-bans-china-based-tiktok-app-on-all-federal-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/us-bans-china-based-tiktok-app-on-all-federal-government-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The move follows a ban by the House, which TikTok said was a \u2018political measure that will do nothing\u2019 for national security<\/p>\n<p>TikTok has been banned on all federal government devices in the US, with limited exceptions, after Joe Biden signed a $1.7tn (\u00a31.4tn) spending bill on Thursday containing a provision that outlaws the China-based app over growing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The ban \u2013 which was approved by Congress in a vote last week \u2013 is a major step targeting the fastest-growing social media platform in the world <strong> <\/strong> as opponents express worry user data stored in China could be accessed by the government.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/dec\/30\/us-tiktok-ban-government-devices-china\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3a45f9988701dced9d7747355d5ce41374134cd3\/0_698_5113_3068\/master\/5113.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0b40b1e5ef1889a2c80d065329eb2feb\" title=\"US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices\" \/>The move follows a ban by the House, which TikTok said was a \u2018political measure that will do nothing\u2019 for national security<br \/>\nTikTok has been banned on all federal government devices in the US, with limited exceptions, after Joe Biden signed a $1.7tn (\u00a31.4tn) spending bill on Thursday containing a provision that outlaws the China-based app over growing security concerns.<br \/>\nThe ban \u2013 which was approved by Congress in a vote last week \u2013 is a major step targeting the fastest-growing social media platform in the world   as opponents express worry user data stored in China could be accessed by the government. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move follows a ban by the House, which TikTok said was a \u2018political measure that will do nothing\u2019 for national security TikTok has been banned on all federal government devices in the US, with limited exceptions, after Joe Biden signed a $1.7tn (\u00a31.4tn) spending bill on Thursday containing a provision that outlaws the China-based &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/30\/us-bans-china-based-tiktok-app-on-all-federal-government-devices\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US bans China-based TikTok app on all federal government devices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}