The United States Senate approved this Wednesday by consensus (that is, without a vote in between) to prohibit the application TikTok in the official devices of federal government employees, although the standard must be approved in the House of Representatives to become law.
The decision comes after several legislatorsso much democrats as Republicans, have suggested that data collected by the popular short video app may find its way into the hands of the Chinese government.
TikTokwhich is owned by the Chinese company bytedancehas assured on several occasions that it does not share data from its users with the authorities of the Asian country.
The Upper House approved the rule that prevents downloading the app
The norm approved today by the High camera would prevent the download of the application on any device used for work purposes by federal government officials.
Several states, such as Texas, Alabama or Tennessee, have already done the same at the state level, while territories such as Indiana have filed lawsuits against bytedance for allegedly enabling Chinese espionage.
In 2019, and as part of its strategy to increase pressure towards ChinaThe then President of the United States, Donald Trump, gave an ultimatum to TikTok so that it would transfer its operations to American companies if it did not want to be banned in the country, something that, however, did not end up happening, and to this day the application remains Chinese property.
TikTok It has more than 100 million users in the United States and in a short time it has become one of the most popular social networks in the world, especially among teenagers.
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