The US military banned military personnel from using the popular video application TikTok on government-issued phones, after highlighting the growing tensions around the parent company of the application in Beijing and directives from the US Department of Defense, as the Defense Information Systems Agency recommended not to use all employees of the Ministry of Defense Defense for the Chinese-owned application.
Army spokesperson Robin Ochoa told Military.com in an interview this week that the app was an electronic threat and was not allowed on government-issued devices, and the spokeswoman told The Washington Post: The service branch complied with directives from the Ministry of Defense, which indicated that the application It is a potential security risk.
This procedure follows a similar ban imposed by the U.S. Navy with an electronic outreach message issued earlier in December from the Department of Defense, which urged about 23,000 Pentagon employees to uninstall the app because it could display personal data to unwanted destinations.
A Pentagon spokesman said the threat was linked to a possible loss of personally identifiable information, while the Army's Public Affairs Officer explained that the military was following the directions of the Secretary of Defense office regarding the potential security risks posed by Tik Tok.
The military's ban and e-awareness message from the Pentagon, which generally does not issue political measures on the services of individual social media platforms, reflects deep-rooted suspicions across Washington about Tik Tok and the Chinese developer of the app, ByteDance.
Some doubts stem from criticism raised by former Tik Tok employees, who told The Washington Post earlier this year that the company had in the past restricted the videos in line with Chinese rules on acceptable speech.
It is reported that the application was subject to scrutiny in October when US Senator Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton sent a letter asking Joseph Maguire, Acting Director of National Intelligence, to investigate the application for national security concerns for fear that Chinese spies could reach Personal data for American users.
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