New York City has directed its employees to delete TikTok from their city-issued phones
from their city-issued phones, joining the federal government and more than half of U.S. states in banning the use of the Chinese-owned social media app on government-owned devices.
Allon said the city's top information security officials determined that TikTok posed a security threat to the city’s technical networks and directed the app's removal from city-owned devices within 30 days.
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