federal agencies 30 days to delete TikTok from all government-issued mobile devices. Last month, the White House said it would give U.S.
Denmark and Canada have also announced efforts to block it on government-issued phones. On Thursday, British authorities said they are banning TikTok on government-issued phones on security grounds, following similar moves by the European Union’s executive branch, which temporarily banned TikTok from employee phones. The White House has already backed a Senate proposal that has bipartisan support. Richard Blumenthal and Jerry Moran, a Democrat and a Republican, wrote a letter in February to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urging the Committee on Foreign Investment panel, which she chairs, to “swiftly conclude its investigation and impose strict structural restrictions” between TikTok's American operations and ByteDance, including potentially separating the companies.Īt the same time, lawmakers have introduced measures that would expand the Biden administration's authority to enact a national ban on TikTok. assets was also shelved as the Biden administration negotiated a deal with TikTok that would address some of the national security concerns. Courts blocked the effort, and President Joe Biden rescinded Trump’s orders but ordered an in-depth study of the issue. In 2020, then-President Donald Trump and his administration sought to force ByteDance to sell off its U.S. government may ban the application if its Chinese owners don’t sell its stake but added, “we have legitimate national security concerns with respect to data integrity that we need to observe.”
Kirby also could not confirm that the administration sent TikTok a letter warning that the U.S. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby declined to comment when asked Thursday to address the Chinese foreign ministry's comments about TikTok, citing the review being conducted by the Committee on Foreign Investment. There’s no evidence that TikTok has turned over such data, but fears abound due to the vast amount of user data it, like other social media companies, collects.Ĭoncerns around TikTok were heightened in December when ByteDance said it fired four employees who accessed data on two journalists from Buzzfeed News and The Financial Times while attempting to track down the source of a leaked report about the company.
So are the data security risks real? And should users be worried that the TikTok app will be wiped off their phones?īoth the FBI and the Federal Communications Commission have warned that ByteDance could share TikTok user data - such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers - with China’s authoritarian government.Ī law implemented by China in 2017 requires companies to give the government any personal data relevant to the country’s national security.
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