The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Committee unanimously passed a bill that would ban U.S. federal workers from
downloading the popular app TikTok onto U.S. government devices, Senator Josh
Hawley, a bill sponsor, said in a press statement on Wednesday.
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a similar measure in
August 2020. Representative Ken Buck has introduced a similar bill in the
House.
The app, which is popular with teens eager to show off dance
moves, has come under fire in the United States because of concerns over its
Chinese owner, ByteDance. TikTok has sought to distance itself from Beijing
with mixed success.
Hawley called the company "an immediate security
threat."
"This should not be a partisan issue and I'm glad to
see my colleagues in the Senate act together to address Beijing's covert data
collection campaign," Hawley said in a statement after the vote.
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