Gov. Cox bans TikTok on all state-owned devices - KSLTV

CULVER CITY, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 27: The TikTok logo is displayed extracurricular a TikTok bureau connected August 27, 2020 successful Culver City, California. The Chinese-owned institution is reportedly acceptable to denote the merchantability of U.S. operations of its fashionable societal media app successful the coming weeks pursuing threats of a shutdown by the Trump administration. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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SALT LAKE CITY — Gov. Spencer Cox issued an enforcement bid prohibiting the usage of TikTok connected each state-owned devices effectual immediately.

The bid states that bureau oregon bureau employees whitethorn not, connected immoderate state-owned physics device, download oregon usage the TikTok app oregon sojourn the TikTok website successful a browser.

The bid applies to each authorities agencies and a “state-owned device” includes immoderate state-owned laptop, tablet, mobile phone, oregon different physics device.

“China’s entree to information collected by TikTok presents a menace to our cybersecurity,” Cox said. “As a result, we’ve deleted our TikTok relationship and ordered the aforesaid connected each state-owned devices. We indispensable support Utahns and marque definite that the radical of Utah tin spot the state’s information systems.”

Utah is the latest authorities to prohibition TikTok aft Nebraska, Texas, Maryland, South Dakota, and South Carolina – each citing a information risk.

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TikTok has accrued dramatically successful popularity implicit the past 5 years, with implicit 100 cardinal users successful the United States. TikTok is owned and operated by ByteDance, a institution headquartered successful China.

According to the release, “Chinese nationalist information laws let the Chinese authorities to compel companies headquartered successful China to supply it with data, which whitethorn see the idiosyncratic data, intelligence property, oregon proprietary accusation of users successful the United States and Utah. Because of these practices, the FBI, FCC and a increasing fig of elected officials person raised concerns astir information risks.”