House officials told members and staff that TikTok and any successor app or service provided by ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, was prohibited.
In an email on Tuesday, the House Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, or CAO, told representatives and staff that TikTok was now banned on official devices, explaining that the app is considered “high risk due to a number of security issues,”
. The CAO, a nonpartisan office in charge of House operations such as logistics and tech support, then proceeded to instruct the email“House staff are NOT allowed to download the TikTok app on any House mobile devices,” Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor wrote in the email, according to a copy obtained by Gizmodo. “Tik Tok is NOT allowed on House mobile devices. If you have the TikTok app on your House mobile device, you will be contacted to remove it.
A spokesperson for the CAO told Gizmodo on Wednesday morning that the policy does not apply to personal devices, only to official House devices.
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