Security issues make the app "high risk," according to House cybersecurity office.
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No more TikTok on House of Representatives’ smartphones
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Why not just improve the country dramatically. Headlines follow.
No more House of Representatives. Jerks who don't "represent" their "constituents" thrown to the curb, or left in the snow at Harris' house.
Politicians who think they know better than those who elected them fired for malfeasance. "You liked to us." "but I dress like a schoolgirl" responded Arizona nutter Keersten Cinema. Performative art indeed.
TikTok sucks because China -- Ted Cruz or Matt Gaetz or MTG or any other MAGA moron.
Yeah, big win here... for... um... er... nobody.
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I expect every governmental body at federal, state and local levels to make its own announcement about banning TikTok on government owned devices. Gotta fill that news cycle. I also assume it’s still okay to watch PHub on your congressional phone since no explicit ban announced.
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Except it's important to remember when Tiktok made it's way to US phones we had just come off the heels of banning ZTE and Huawei. The app was heavily criticized because it was scraping user data in ways Facebook could have only dreamed of being ballsy enough to get away with. It's also incredibly common knowledge that no tech business survives without love from the CCP in China. Tiktok has always been something to be leery of. Furthermore the CCP doesn't exactly cry for US companies when it stops them from competing in their markets.
Not super crazy to suggest the ban back then, just super aggressive. That said if you think we need proof the ByteDance spying was done for the CCP to act, that's just bad policy.
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Technically if data leaves the US, the NSA is allowed to snoop while if it remains in the US doing so would be illegal.
So no more democracy? Just Dear Leader? Sounds a bit too much like China for me.
You mean like... Voting them out?
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Mr. Trump's plan for TikTok was to force divestiture, effectively nationalize its US operations, and immediately transfer ownership and control to Larry Ellison's Oracle. And then to allow Oracle to keep collecting all the data.
Today's issue is that IT security experts are telling Congressmen "you can't use this insecure, spyware-riddled app on your government equipment."
One situation was using security theatre as cover for blatant corruption. The other situation is a reasonable and technically sound response to an identified security issue.
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