{"id":27023,"date":"2020-07-21T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27023"},"modified":"2020-07-21T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T04:38:48","slug":"house-votes-to-ban-tiktok-on-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=27023","title":{"rendered":"House votes to ban TikTok on government devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An amendment banning the use of TikTok on government devices was successfully attached to the annual defense policy\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ygbcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvflggq_bqgpggflfypgzgfcfqcg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ygbcypmrvssnwpwsnfkvvnccvmntsmszzgvrpbtvflggq_bqgpggflfypgzgfcfqcg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1595460318964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHUD4KbyE20UMcNOBka89cTs58Flw\">approved by the House Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, brought by Rep.\u00a0Ken Buck\u00a0(D-Colo.), would bar federal employees from downloading the short-form video app onto government-issued devices.<\/p>\n<p>The successful amendment comes amid rising scrutiny of TikTok as a national security threat because of its ties to China. TikTok&#8217;s parent company, ByteDance, is based in and operates out of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to TikTok for comment on the amendment. The company has maintained that it does not transfer data to the Chinese government.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has suggested\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fnrrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglybsnnb_bqgpggflfypgzgfcfqcg.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/fnrrtcqzyddwpcpdwbjyywrryqwldqdffnyzcglybsnnb_bqgpggflfypgzgfcfqcg.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1595460318964000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF2mWfn9eMaLeMLSDTojSfh_v8Zjw\">it will ban TikTok outright<\/a>\u00a0because of its ties to the Chinese Communist Party, although no specific timeline or mechanism has been provided.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the House approved the House National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by a 295 to 125 margin, the Senate will likely pass its own version of the bill, then the two chambers will come together on compromise legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Buck&#8217;s amendment mirrors a bill introduced in the Senate by Sens.\u00a0Josh Hawley\u00a0(R-Mo.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), making it likely that a TikTok ban will at least be considered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An amendment banning the use of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27024,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27023\/revisions\/27024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}