Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD/CAROLINA: Governors of Wisconsin Tony Evers and North Carolina on Thursday issued orders banning TikTok on government devices due to cyber security concerns, joining other states of America and the federal government in prohibiting the use of the popular video app.
In addition to banning Chinese-owned TikTok from state devices, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers said that he was prohibiting vendors, products, and services from other Chinese companies, including Huawei Technologies, Hikvision, Tencent Holdings, – the owner of WeChat, ZTE Corp, as well as Russian-based Kaspersky Lab.
Evers said that “In the digital age, defending our state’s technology and cybersecurity infrastructure and protecting digital privacy has to be a top priority for us as a state,”.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed and issued directing officials to develop a policy within 14 days that prohibits using TikTok, WeChat, and “potentially other applications” that present cybersecurity risks on state devices.
TikTok disappointed
TikTok said it is disappointed that so many states are jumping on the political bandwagon to enact policies that could do nothing to cybersecurity in their states based on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok.
