According to the television network, the order was given by the director of the Management office and White House Budget, Shalanda Young, in a memorandum issued this Monday addressed to all government agencies and their private contractors.
Federal agencies have 30 days after receiving the rule to remove a TikTok app from the devicesand for security reasons include in their contracts the prohibition to use this social network on their devices.
This is how the government can President Joe Biden complies with a bill passed in the US Congress late last year that would require federal agencies to suppress TikTok, which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, over fears that user data could be compromised government hands Chinese.
Source: El heraldo
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