Maryland, South Carolina and South Dakota have all issued similar bans of the app on...
Governor Greg Abbott receives a tour of the University of Houston fentanyl vaccine lab and a briefing from lab technicians on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, at University of Houston in Houston.Gov. Greg Abbott is banning the use of TikTok on all government-issued devices in Texas amid fears of the Chinese government using the popular app for espionage.
Maryland, South Carolina and South Dakota have all issued similar bans of the app on government devices. Like in those states, Abbott is warning that beyond collecting data on app users, TikTok is owned by ByteDance a Chinese company that is required to comply with any potential requests from the Chinese government to hand over data collected from its users.
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