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US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government employee phones

2020-08-06T17:43:38.288Z

The US Senate unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that bans the downloading and use of TikTok, the social network of the Chinese group ByteDance, on any device issued by the government to its employees or to members of Congress. To read also: Beyond TikTok, Donald Trump wants to "clean the network" internet " TikTok represents a major security risk and has no place on government devices ," twe...

The US Senate unanimously passed a bill on Thursday that bans the downloading and use of TikTok, the social network of the Chinese group ByteDance, on any device issued by the government to its employees or to members of Congress.

To read also: Beyond TikTok, Donald Trump wants to "clean the network" internet

" TikTok represents a major security risk and has no place on government devices ," tweeted the press service of Republican Senator Josh Hawley, co-author of the text.

Source: lefigaro

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