City employees will begin to lose access to TikTok and its website from all city-owned devices and networks, according to a New York City Hall spokesperson.
New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, officials said. Here, the TikTok app logo, shown in Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2020.New York City banned TikTok on government-owned devices on Wednesday, officials said. Here, the TikTok app logo, shown in Tokyo, on Sept. 28, 2020.New York City is joining a wave of federal agencies and states across the U.S. in banning TikTok from government-owned devices, citing security concerns that could be associated with the app.
In a statement sent Thursday to NPR, a New York City Hall spokesperson said that agencies must remove the popular short-form video-sharing app from all government devices within the next 30 days. City employees will begin to lose access to the TikTok app and its website from all city-owned devices and networks.
"While social media is great at connecting New Yorkers with one another and the city, we have to ensure we are always using these platforms in a secure manner," a spokesperson said in the statement. The spokesperson told NPR that the city's Cyber Command — the office tasked with protecting New York City's systems against cyber threats — regularly investigates and takes proactive measures to keep New Yorkers' data safe and as a result, determined that TikTok posed a security threat to the city's technical networks.
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