Youngkin bans TikTok on state devices - WWBT

RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an enforcement bid connected Friday “banning the usage of definite Chinese-owned mobile telephone applications and websites connected authorities authorities technology.”

This includes TikTok and WeChat, “or immoderate different exertion developed by ByteDance Limited oregon Tencent Holdings Limited,” the bid said.

“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,” said Governor Glenn Youngkin. “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.”

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares says that TikTok not lone poses a menace to security, it besides negatively impacts the intelligence wellness of youth.

“In March, I joined a bipartisan conjugation of 43 different attorneys wide to analyse TikTok’s carnal and intelligence interaction connected children,” Miyares said successful a quality release. “As this probe continues, I americium gladsome that Governor Youngkin is addressing the superior information risks TikTok poses for the Commonwealth.”

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