{"id":23260,"date":"2022-12-14T02:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/chinese-owned-tiktok-banned-from-utah-government-devices\/"},"modified":"2022-12-14T02:55:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T02:55:38","slug":"chinese-owned-tiktok-banned-from-utah-government-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/14\/chinese-owned-tiktok-banned-from-utah-government-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese-owned TikTok banned from Utah government devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/go.fiverr.com\/visit\/?bta=1052423&nci=17043\" Target=\"_Top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/fiverr.ck-cdn.com\/tn\/serve\/?cid=40081059\"  width=\"601\" height=\"201\"><\/a>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/wp-content\/themes\/breek\/assets\/images\/transparent.gif\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/CP33BAVKD4I6ZCUOTRXJ7R5A3Y.jpg&amp;w=1440\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-grBDNq hide-for-print mb-sm undefined\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-iAjpuP-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-fLphcs\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jmLDag wpds-c-jmLDag-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-jmLDag-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-jmLDag-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-jmLDag-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-jmLDag-futxca-cv wpds-c-jmLDag-iknmtxO-css\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"PJLV PJLV-iPnDcc-css\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa focus-highlight flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p>Comment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The governor of Utah declared Monday that TikTok is prohibited on many state electronic devices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Gov. Spencer Cox (R) issued the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/16Xmec1QLUwZZy6EFLvBWt-rF6rofsG8t\/view\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">executive order<\/a> Monday,<b> <\/b> banning many employees in the state\u2019s executive branch from using the social media<b> <\/b>app on state-owned phones, tablets or computers. Exempt from the ban are schools of all levels, the attorney general\u2019s office and the legislative and judicial branches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Cox said he is uncomfortable with TikTok because it is owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance and he is distrustful of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/bytedance-tiktok-privacy-china\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ties to the Chinese government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/bytedance-tiktok-privacy-china\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_6\">As Washington wavers on TikTok, Beijing exerts control<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cChina\u2019s access to data collected by TikTok presents a threat to our cybersecurity,\u201d Cox said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.utah.gov\/2022\/12\/12\/news-release-gov-spencer-cox-orders-tiktok-ban-on-state-owned-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release<\/a> this week. \u201cAs a result, we\u2019ve deleted our TikTok account and ordered the same on all state-owned devices. We must protect Utahns and make sure that the people of Utah can trust the state\u2019s security systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The complicated relationship between the U.S. government and China\u2019s Communist Party is central to the past, present and future of an app that contains content as goofy or as serious as humans can be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">TikTok is a video-based social network with a powerful algorithm that provides a well of content tailored to the interests and habits of the user.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The app can harvest data from users and sell those personal details, a researcher told The Washington Post on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Cox joins several other governors over the past couple of weeks who have limited public-sector use of TikTok.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Maryland, South Carolina and South Dakota have banned TikTok from some government devices in the past week or so, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/wisconsin-republicans-ask-democrat-evers-to-ban-tiktok\/2022\/12\/06\/002eee1c-757b-11ed-a199-927b334b939f_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. So did Texas. Nebraska blocked TikTok on government electronics in August 2020. Indiana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/07\/tiktok-lawsuit-indiana-china\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued TikTok last week<\/a>, saying the app exposes children to harmful content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The governors of all those states are Republican.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">And other Republican-led states may follow, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/12\/07\/states-are-joining-tiktok-crackdown\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Post has reported<\/a>. Six members of Congress from Wisconsin, including Sen. Ron Johnson (R), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/services\/files\/7B5A48E1-AD49-4E18-9C2C-455BF1660F68\">called on<\/a> their governor to ban the app. The Post reported that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/09\/23\/desantis-eyes-tiktok-china-access-personal-data-florida\/8084378001\/\">concerned about state procurement<\/a> of technology products and services such as TikTok because of links to \u201cforeign countries of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Jamal Brown, a spokesman for TikTok, said Tuesday: \u201cWe\u2019re disappointed that so many states are jumping on the bandwagon to enact policies based on unfounded, politically charged falsehoods about TikTok. It is unfortunate that the many state agencies, offices, and universities on TikTok in those states will no longer be able to use it to build communities and connect with constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<div data-oembed-type=\"twitter\" class=\"\" style=\"min-height:171px\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TikTok,\u00a0which\u00a0is owned by a company headquartered in China, poses\u00a0grave\u00a0security concerns to Utah and the country. This is the right move and will better protect sensitive data from getting into\u00a0hands of the CCP. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dEXKMFXRz4\">https:\/\/t.co\/dEXKMFXRz4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Mitt Romney (@SenatorRomney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorRomney\/status\/1602361082043142148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The Post in October published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/tiktok-popularity\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">three-part series<\/a> looking at the TikTok phenomenon and how the app has given two of the world\u2019s most powerful countries another reason to fight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/interactive\/2022\/tiktok-popularity\/?itid=lk_interstitial_manual_22\">How TikTok ate the internet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Data firms have found that the average American viewer watches TikTok for 80 minutes a day, The Post reported, which is more than the time spent on Facebook and Instagram combined.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">TikTok is similar to many social media apps, privacy researcher Sameer Patil said Tuesday, aside from the international politics. \u201cTheir goal essentially is to serve you with target ads or targeted content to serve their business model,\u201d said Patil, a University of Utah computing professor who specializes in user privacy online.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The difference, he said, is that TikTok is owned by a Chinese company \u2014 and that presents a jurisdiction issue. The best way to calm fears of American data being owned by the Chinese government is to make sure the data never leaves American soil, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">President Donald Trump in 2020 tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2020\/07\/31\/tiktok-trump-divestiture\/?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template&amp;itid=lk_inline_manual_28\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rid the United States<\/a> of TikTok but said he would relent if ByteDance sold to an American buyer. But, The Post reported, the Chinese government stepped in. Since then, ByteDance announced <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/en-us\/delivering-on-our-us-data-governance?itid=lk_inline_enhanced-template\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Project Texas<\/a>, which it says is aimed at routing all American traffic on TikTok through data centers owned by American cloud-storage provider Oracle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p><span class=\"font--article-body font-copy hide-for-print ma-0 pb-md db italic interstitial\"><a data-qa=\"interstitial-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@washingtonpost?lang=en\">Follow The Washington Post on TikTok<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">TikTok doesn\u2019t make its code publicly available, Patil said, so users just have to trust that the company is keeping its word.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">As an exercise in class, Patil said he has his students read the privacy statements published by social media giants. \u201cI just come away with students who are blown away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Students are shocked at what these companies can harvest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cYou should just assume that everything is being collected and will be used in any way the company wants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">People are giving up not only their location, he said, but details with far-reaching possibilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Users who post videos of themselves on TikTok are giving away their image and voice, which can be used to make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/08\/30\/deep-fake-video-on-agt\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_37\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">deepfake videos<\/a> or fuel the progress of other artificial intelligence, he said. TikTok can learn about your consumer preferences by what\u2019s in the background of your video. Did you mention you were going on a vacation somewhere? Don\u2019t be surprised if you see ads for a hotel near your destination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">There is a more innocuous possibility, Patil said. Maybe these governors want their employees to stay focused at work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">The app is so effective that eventually a video from TikTok itself will appear nudging the user to consider whether they\u2019ve been scrolling for too long.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">This worry isn\u2019t new. Just ask Greg Kinnear\u2019s character in the 1998 Nora Ephron movie \u201cYou\u2019ve Got Mail,\u201d who during one scene worriedly read aloud from a newspaper that Virginia\u2019s government (fictitiously) chose to remove solitaire from all government computers because no one had done any work for weeks. \u201cYou know what this is? You know what we\u2019re seeing here? We\u2019re seeing the end of Western civilization as we know it,\u201d he told Meg Ryan\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">Patil agreed, saying social media companies don\u2019t exist just to make users feel good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\">\u201cThere is a deliberate attempt on the part of these companies to keep you there,\u201d Patil said. \u201cIt\u2019s not that users are addicted for no reason.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><iframe data-lazy=\"true\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets?id=U2FsdGVkX18x7XQvttUTrv1oEqmGNGTgvvCUiUoJ\/AP4z\/UyMz8lXGOLpu15jIMxBbTR0gmD5uBoFvhC4KWeALQRp3h\/X\/AwcVD0K8Wj9H\/ZzYKzcCNHosB9oS4SCJJFWiN85P9ICAc4OgCoE\/wHKIY7CDkf2\/DQ1vqGvk4smVe5cRDEmrLPCWi4FC8p40VUhSmWQ5udCm0zoJtorgWv3vbDQw0kKYkwn39ozAnQXDe+YvWMxkLFWA+O3TFwkJvdkIK+\/AUSnRssPKt5WHY0FhNOxnSPcLslEL4G4\/RfP95ve99U+kRnDy3X+KtzdQLY+u935ghON\/o3UE4IMv9oN6JX9RnxzL\/LRcOgnHigxStSGPKsZYtnz8RWNVT\/rOLAibqiWJadC5MYHRbekF3eg6FOGrQGkXYbsn0+a5aovnlLCbLwIqY9fcS17UX8J235iQ6cdmHNbrPeS84CMm34RA==&affiliate_id=1052423&strip_google_tagmanager=true\" loading=\"lazy\" data-with-title=\"true\" class=\"fiverr_nga_frame\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"350\" width=\"100%\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-mode=\"random_gigs\" onload=\" var frame = this; var script = document.createElement('script'); script.addEventListener('load', function() { window.FW_SDK.register(frame); }); script.setAttribute('src', 'https:\/\/www.fiverr.com\/gig_widgets\/sdk'); document.body.appendChild(script); \" ><\/iframe>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2022\/12\/13\/tik-tok-utah-china\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=referral&#038;utm_campaign=wp_business-technology\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this story Comment The governor of Utah declared Monday that TikTok is prohibited on many state electronic devices. 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