What you need to know about Louisiana’s TikTok ban

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) – The favored social media app TikTok has the eye of lawmakers throughout the nation, even on Capitol Hill.

Issues over nationwide safety have congressional members eager to ban the app on government-issued units. Now leaders in Louisiana are making related strikes on their very own.

With the priority of private and personal knowledge being uncovered, Louisiana Secretary of State, Kyle Ardoin, plans to ban the app TikTok for all units issued by the state division.

Officers with the state division say the FBI believes TikTok poses a nationwide safety risk, including the information collected by the Chinese language-owned software program will be manipulated or used to govern its customers.

In Washington, the U.S. Home of Representatives has carried out the identical factor for all of its employees.

One Louisiana lawmaker needs to take it a step additional. State Consultant Daryl Deshotel is a Republican from Marksville who plans to deliver up laws, when session begins in April, to ban TikTok on all state worker units.

Secretary of State Ardoin has additionally referred to as on Governor John Bel Edwards to comply with his ban statewide. He has but to make an official resolution, we reached out to the governor’s workplace for remark as nicely however didn’t hear again.

It must be famous Louisiana just isn’t the one state that’s wanting to do that. Different states like Georgia and New Hampshire have already applied statewide bans on the app for all of their state authorities staff.

TikTok responded to our request for an announcement saying,

“We’re dissatisfied that so many states are leaping on the political bandwagon to enact insurance policies that may do nothing to advance cybersecurity of their states and are based mostly on unfounded falsehoods about TikTok.

TikTok is cherished by tens of millions of People, and it’s unlucky that the numerous state companies, places of work, universities, scholar teams, and sports activities groups in these states will now not have the ability to use TikTok to construct communities and share info. We’re persevering with to work with the federal authorities to finalize an answer that may meaningfully handle any safety issues which were raised on the federal and state stage.

These plans have been developed underneath the oversight of our nation’s high nationwide safety companies—plans that we’re nicely underway in implementing—to additional safe our platform in the US, and we are going to proceed to transient lawmakers on them.”

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