Kansas governor bans TikTok on government-issued devices - Fox Business

Kansas became the latest authorities to prohibition TikTok connected each authorities devices connected Wednesday, a determination that Gov. Laura Kelly said she took to "protect Kansans' privateness and security." 

"TikTok mines users’ information and perchance gives it to the Chinese Communist Party -- a menace recognized by a increasing radical of bipartisan leaders," Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, tweeted. 

Governors successful astatine slightest a twelve different states, including Virginia, New Hampshire, Texas, and Georgia, person already imposed TikTok bans connected authorities devices. 

The sprawling 4,115-page omnibus bill that Congress passed past week includes the No TikTok connected Government Devices Act, which prohibits TikTok connected astir government-issued devices. 

TikTok app logo connected the App Store is seen with TikTok logo displayed successful the inheritance successful this illustration photo. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

Jamal Brown, a TikTok spokesperson, said Wednesday that the bans are "based connected unfounded falsehoods" and "will bash thing to advance cybersecurity," accusing the states of "jumping connected the governmental bandwagon." 

"We are continuing to enactment with the national authorities to finalize a solution that volition meaningfully code immoderate information concerns that person been raised astatine the national and authorities level," Brown told Fox Business. "These plans person been developed nether the oversight of our country's apical nationalist information agencies—plans that we are good underway successful implementing—to further unafraid our level successful the United States, and we volition proceed to little lawmakers connected them."

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A increasing fig of lawmakers and quality officials person warned that TikTok's genitor company, China-based ByteDance, could stock information connected Americans with the Chinese Communist Party. 

"TikTok is simply a Trojan Horse for the Chinese Communist Party," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said successful a connection earlier this month. "It’s a large information hazard to the United States, and until it is forced to sever ties with China completely, it has nary spot connected authorities devices."

A antheral wearing a garment promoting TikTok is seen astatine an Apple store successful Beijing.  (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan / AP Newsroom)

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FBI Director Christopher Wray besides warned that Chinese officials could usage their entree to TikTok to "manipulate content, and if they privation to, to usage it for power operations."

"All of these things are successful the hands of a authorities that doesn’t stock our values, and that has a ngo that's precise overmuch astatine likelihood with what’s successful the champion interests of the United States. That should interest us," Wray said successful a code astatine the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy connected Dec. 2. 

Fox Business' Ronn Blitzer and Adam Sabes contributed to this report.