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Yesterday, Monday, the White House ordered federal agencies to ban “TikTok” on their phones and devices within 30 days, due to the risks to US national security of the application, owned by the Chinese company “ByteDance”.
The US presidency said that the Office of Management and Budget in the White House had ordered all departments and agencies of the federal government to implement within 30 days the ban imposed by a law passed by Congress at the end of December, according to which it was forbidden to download the application on any device or phone belonging to the government.
This came in a memorandum issued by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget at the White House, Shalanda Young, in implementation of the law published by President Joe Biden in early January.
In her memo, Young ordered various agencies, departments, and agencies of the federal government to “remove and prohibit downloading” of the app on devices that you own or manage, and to “prevent online communication” between those devices and the app.
The US decision comes a day after a similar decision issued by the Canadian government, according to which it prohibited downloading the application on any of its phones and electronic devices because it “involves an unacceptable level of risks to privacy and security.”
Last week, the European Commission banned the application on its devices.
