On Wednesday (December 14), the US Senate agreed to pass a bill to prohibit federal employees from downloading or using social media applications Tiktok on government equipment.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the bill still needs to be passed in the House of Representatives and signed by the president to become a law.In the last parliament, a similar bill was passed in the Senate, but it has never made progress in the House of Representatives.
For the owner of the application, the bytes of the headquarters in Beijing, China, and US officials and two -party members have expressed doubts.
Tiktok applications can post short videos with music. In just five years, the application has exploded to become a popular cultural phenomenon.It is the most popular application in the world, and two -thirds of American teenagers are used.
Tiktok has said many times that he has never shared data from American users with the Chinese government, and data will not be shared even if you receive such a requirement.
Earlier, the United States has banned the use of TIKTOK on mobile devices in the state government.
According to the Twitter account of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, at least seven states have launched restricted measures in the past two weeks, including Maryland, South Dakota, and Utah.At present, 12 states have disabled Tiktok.
Reuters reported that a Tiktok spokesman responded that some US Congress decided to promote a ban on political motivation, which was not helpful to promote US national security.
