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Thursday, August 6, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, August 6, 2020
US Senate votes to ban TikTok on government phones
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe US Senate votes to bar TikTok from being downloaded onto US government employees’ telephones, intensifying US scrutiny of the popular Chinese-owned video app.
The bill passed by the Republican-controlled Senate now goes to the House of Representatives, led by Democrats.
“TikTok is a major security risk and has no place on government devices,” says Republican Senator Josh Hawley, the sponsor of the bill.
US President Donald Trump, who has locked horns with China on a range of issues including trade and the pandemic, has set a deadline of mid-September for TikTok to be acquired by a US firm or be banned in the US.
— AFP
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