The video-sharing social media app has state and federal government officials on edge over the potential it poses of putting Americans' personal information in the hands of the Chinese government. The China-based company that owns TikTok, however, denies it shares information with the communist government.
Amid national security concerns involving the social media app TikTok, Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity announced on Thursday she has banned its use on Treasury-owned phones and computers.
Government officials claim the app, which is owned by Beijing, China-based ByteDance, poses a risk security risk because it could put sensitive data, including location information, personal habits and interests of Americans, in the hands of the Chinese government. She said an internal security review conducted this month found the app had not been used on any Treasury-issued devices. In addition to barring its use on a Treasury-owned device, she said the department’s firewall has been updated to ban access to that app and its corresponding website.Stacey Witalec, a spokeswoman for the state courts, said the app has been banned from court-owned devices for three or four years.
As for state agencies that operate under the governor’s jurisdiction, Dan Egan, a spokesman for the governor’s Office of Administration, said they are currently prohibited from creating or using TikTok accounts for commonwealth business or for authorizing the platform for media advertisements on behalf of the commonwealth.
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