Maricopa County has voted unanimously to prohibit TikTok on any government-owned devices. The Board of Supervisors in Arizona’s most populous county approved the ban Wednesday morning. MORE ⬇️
PHOENIX — Maricopa County leaders voted unanimously Wednesday morning to prohibit TikTok on any government-owned devices.
The ban approved by the Board of Supervisors in Arizona's most populous county will take effect immediately. The resolution to protect the privacy and security of county data comes a month after Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs signed an executive order for the same ban on state devices.TikTok is a subsidiary of a Chinese technology company, ByteDance. Galvin says the risk was too great that the app can collect county data that can easily be requested by the Chinese government.
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