Congress may follow Alabama's lead on banning Tik Tok - Alabama Public Radio

Members of the U.S. House and Senate are penning bills to prohibition national workers from utilizing the fashionable app Tik Tok. Florida U.S. Senator Marco Rubio is introducing authorities that would prohibition national workers from utilizing the video sharing system. Alabama Governor Kay Ivey this ordered State authorities to halt utilizing the platform. Her bureau issued a merchandise saying that privateness is the issue. Ivey is among Tik Tok’s critics who accidental the app harvests information from its users. Tik Tok is creating a Trust and Safety squad to antagonistic its detractors. The national lawmakers are acrophobic astir the short-form video app’s genitor institution and its connections with China.
This determination comes arsenic a fistful of states, including Alabama, person implemented Tik Tok bans connected state-owned devices. A authorities lawmaker successful Georgia says helium whitethorn present his ain measurement to prohibition the app successful the Peach State.