Some Ohio lawmakers want to join dozens of others state in prohibiting public employees from using apps like TikTok on their state-issued devices.
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The measure under consideration in the Ohio House largely seeks to codify the governor’s executive order. It got its first committee hearing in late March, shortly before lawmakers left on spring recess. The bill’s sponsor Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Loveland, argued “banning these programs from government devices protect sensitive state information from potential breaches to the Chinese government.”
“Because ByteDance, the parent company, is in China, it’s reportable to the Chinese Communist Party, and has to follow these laws to the tee,” Swearingen argued, “which includes all of our consumer data that’s harvested to go into this algorithm that’s targeting the Tick Tock users.” “We know Facebook has already been accused of selling, proven actually, to sell our data,” Rep. Munira Abduallahi, D-Columbus argued. “So why doesn’t this bill go into more social media? I think they all pose a security risk at some point.”
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