The U.S. House of Representatives has officially notified members of the House of Representatives and staff, including their aides, of banning the use of China's video-sharing platform 'TikTok'.
According to the US media on the 27th (local time), the House Secretariat said in an internal notice that day, "Downloading TikTok is prohibited on any mobile device belonging to the House of Representatives." that," he said.
Previously, the US Congress passed the federal budget bill for fiscal year 2023, including a total ban on the use of TikTok on federally owned mobile devices.
This action is part of a follow-up to the passage of the law.
Owned by Chinese telecommunications conglomerate ByteDance, TikTok is one of the world's most popular video-sharing platforms.
However, concerns have been raised in the United States that user information collected by TikTok could be leaked to the Chinese government.
Former President Donald Trump even signed an executive order banning TikTok downloads in the United States from the Apple App Store or Google Play in 2020.
TikTok has confirmed several times that it will move all American user information to Oracle, but related concerns are not dispelled.
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