Maine on Thursday joined North Carolina and Wisconsin this month in barring state employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices.
"The State of Maine must keep pace with a rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape that poses significant risks to the security of the State’s network infrastructure, including the sensitive and confidential data that we are entrusted to protect for our citizens," the Maine Office of Information Technology said in a new directive to go into effect Feb. 1.
"It’s important for us to protect state information technology from foreign countries that have actively participated in cyberattacks against the United States,", adding that Chinese social media platform WeChat is also being banned from state devices. "Defending our state's technology and cybersecurity infrastructure and protecting digital privacy will continue to be a top priority," Wisconsin Democratic
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