NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has ordered employees to remove TikTok from their city-issued phones, joining federal authorities and more than half the states in banning the use of the TikTok app. Chinese-owned video app on government-owned devices.
“While social media is great for connecting New Yorkers with each other and with the city, we must ensure that we always use these platforms safely,” Jonah Allon, a spokesman for Mayor Eric Adams, said in a statement Thursday.
Allon said that the city’s top information security officials determined that TikTok posed a threat to the security of the city’s technical networks and ordered the removal of the app from city-owned devices within the next 30 days. .
The federal government ordered employees to remove TikTok from government-issued cellphones earlier this year amid concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, could provide user data to the Chinese government. More than half of the states in the United States have enacted similar bans.
The state of New York has banned the use of TikTok on state devices since 2020, with some exceptions for promotional accounts.
TikTok representatives have said that questions about possible cybersecurity risks when using the app are unfounded. So far they have not commented on the New York City ban.
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2023-08-17 16:44:00
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