Plan will bar state employees and contractors with TikTok on personal devices from access...
, Gov. Greg Abbott followed up on Monday with a more detailed security plan to further crack down on the popular social media application.Under a 9-page security plan, state employees and contractors would be barred from conducting state business with devices that have TikTok on them, such as personally owned cell phones. That includes barring the ability to access voicemails and emails.
TikTok, launched internationally in 2017, is owned by ByteDance, a Beijing-based company. It is now estimated to have 1 billion users worldwide and has been downloaded more than 200 million times in the United States. More than 60 percent of the app's users are under 30 years old. Former President Donald Trump has pushed to force TikTok to sell their U.S. operations to an American company. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal have both reported that the Biden administration has been reviewing a host of options to restrict TikTok’s access to American data.
"We know we are among the most scrutinized platforms from a security standpoint, and we aim to remove any doubt about the security of U.S. user data," TikTok officials said in a statement released to reporters last year.
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