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The three main institutions that make up the E.U.–the European Parliament, European Commission and the E.U. Council–have all banned TikTok from employees’ work phones.
What is H.R. 1721, dubbed the TikTok ban bill? A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill on March 5 that would require the app's parent company, ByteDance, to sell TikTok within six months.
Federal. Executive Order 14034 ("EO 14034"), "Protecting Americans' Sensitive Data from Foreign Adversaries". In January 2020, the United States Army and Navy banned TikTok on government devices after the Defense Department labeled it a security risk. Before the policy change, army recruiters had been using the platform to attract young people.
Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act; Long title: An Act to protect the national security of the United States from the threat posed by foreign adversary controlled applications, such as TikTok and any successor application or service and any other application or service developed or provided by ByteDance Ltd. or an entity under the control of ByteDance Ltd.
On 21 March 2023, the federal government began a review of the app. [121] The review is expected to ban TikTok on all official government devices. It has been reported that some politicians are using burner phones due to the ban. [122] On 4 April 2023, TikTok was banned on all government devices, including the mobile phones of politicians. [123]
Here are the places that have partial or total bans on TikTok: AFGHANISTAN. TikTok has been banned since 2022, along with videogame PUBG, after the country's Taliban leadership decided to forbid ...
The UK government has pushed for a ban on TikTok on official devices following a review by the National Cyber Security Centre. The ban, announced on Thursday, will allow ministers and officials to ...
Logo of TikTok. The online video platform TikTok has had worldwide a social, political, and cultural impact since its global launch in September 2017. The platform has rapidly grown its userbase since its launch and surpassed 2 billion downloads in October 2020. It became the world's most popular website, ahead of Google, for the year 2021.