{"id":1781585,"date":"2022-12-20T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781585"},"modified":"2022-12-20T11:33:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T16:33:35","slug":"congress-moves-to-ban-chinese-spyware-app-tiktok-on-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-moves-to-ban-chinese-spyware-app-tiktok-on-government-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Moves to Ban Chinese Spyware App TikTok on Government Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongress-moves-to-ban-chinese-spyware-app-tiktok-on-government-devices%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1781585&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By David Shepardson<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014U.S. lawmakers early Tuesday included a proposal to bar federal government employees from using Chinese app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0on government-owned devices in a key spending bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate last week voted on a bill sponsored by Republican Senator Josh Hawley to bar federal employees from using the ByteDance-owned short video app on government-owned devices. It was the latest action by U.S. lawmakers to crack down on Chinese companies amid national security fears.<\/p>\n<p>The ban is in a massive omnibus measure to fund U.S. government operations that is expected to be voted on this week. The bill gives the White House Office of Management and Budget 60 days &#8220;to develop standards and guidelines for executive agencies requiring the removal&#8221; of\u00a0TikTok\u00a0from federal devices.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters reported the proposed ban&#8217;s expected inclusion in the legislation earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal last week won the backing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok\u00a0has said the concerns are largely fueled by misinformation. The legislation would not impact the more than 100 million Americans who use\u00a0TikTok\u00a0on private or company-owned devices.<\/p>\n<p>Many federal agencies, including the White House and the Defense, Homeland Security and State departments, already ban\u00a0TikTok\u00a0from government-owned devices.<\/p>\n<p>Also Monday, state agencies in Louisiana and West Virginia became the latest to ban the use of\u00a0TikTok\u00a0on government devices over concern that China could use it to track Americans and censor content.<\/p>\n<p>Some 19 of the 50 U.S. states have now at least partially blocked access on government computers to\u00a0TikTok. Most of the restrictions came within the past two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, Republican then-President Donald Trump attempted to block new users from downloading\u00a0TikTok\u00a0and to ban other transactions that would have effectively blocked the app&#8217;s use in the United States but lost a series of court battles.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. government Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a national security body, has for months sought to reach a national security agreement to protect the data of U.S.\u00a0TikTok\u00a0users, but it appears no deal will be reached before year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Jacqueline Wong, Stephen Coates &#038; Shri Navaratnam)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters)\u2014U.S. lawmakers early Tuesday included a proposal to bar federal government employees from using Chinese app\u00a0TikTok\u00a0on government-owned devices in a key spending bill.<br \/>\nThe post Congress Moves to Ban Chinese Spyware App TikTok on Government Devices appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1781588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9244,7008,4092,4117,4402,8212,5045,5368,10579,6248],"class_list":["post-1781585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-app","tag-ban","tag-beacon","tag-chinese","tag-congress","tag-devices","tag-government","tag-moves","tag-spyware","tag-tiktok"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1781588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}