Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin bans TikTok, WeChat on state networks and technology - Fox Business

Republican Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an enforcement bid banning TikTok and WeChat from being utilized connected authorities authorities technology.

Youngkin signed the enforcement bid connected Friday and said that the applications are a wide menace to nationalist security.

"TikTok and WeChat information are a transmission to the Chinese Communist Party, and their continued beingness represents a menace to nationalist security, the quality community, and the idiosyncratic privateness of each azygous American," Youngkin said. "We are taking this measurement contiguous to unafraid authorities authorities devices and wireless networks from the menace of infiltration and guarantee that we safeguard the information and cybersecurity of authorities government." 

Specifically, the bid bans TikTok, WeChat, and immoderate products made by ByteDance Limited oregon Tencent Holdings Limited from being utilized connected authorities authorities devices and state-run wireless networks.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin caput a circular array gathering with parents and 2 of this secretaries astatine a Safeway market store successful Alexandria, VA connected February 3, 2022. (Photo by Robb Hill for The Washington Post via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The bid besides requires contractors who enactment with the authorities authorities to "prohibit the usage of those applications connected state-owned devices oregon IT infrastructure."

State employees who already person TikTok, WeChat, oregon immoderate different products made by ByteDance Limited oregon Tencent Holdings Limited connected authorities devices are being told to uninstall the applications by Dec. 31.

Virginia joins respective different states specified arsenic New Hampshire, Alabama, Idaho, Utah, and Georgia, who person taken akin actions against TikTok and different companies based successful China.

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21 January 2022, Berlin: On the surface of a smartphone you tin spot the icon of the app TikTok.  (Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa (Photo by Fabian Sommer/picture confederation via Getty Images) / Getty Images)

FBI Director Christopher Wray said during a Dec. 2 code astatine the University of Michigan that Chinese officials person wide entree to TikTok, allowing them "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.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray testifies earlier the Senate Intelligence Committee connected March 10, 2022 successful Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images / Getty Images)

However, during a September Senate hearing, TikTok Chief Operating Officer Vanessa Pappas attempted to refute the conception that the institution shares users' data.

"We volition ne'er stock data, period," Pappas said.

Fox News' Lawrence Richard and Leah Crawley contributed to this report.