The US government continues to put pressure on TikTok because to security issues. Late last year, the FBI director said that the social video app posed a threat to national security, and rumours have it that some members of the Biden administration had been pressuring TikTok’s owners to sell their US business.

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Governors continue to forbid TikTok at the state level, claiming concerns over data security and privacy. The software was removed from state-owned devices earlier this month by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Ohio Governor Mike DeWine. Last month, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order prohibiting the use of WeChat and TikTok on state-owned cellular networks and devices.

Last month, TikTok expressed its disappointment with some state and federal officials’ activities. In an email, a company representative stated that the organisation is prepared to implement solutions created with the assistance of national security organisations “to further secure our platform here in the United States.”

In the beginning of December, Todd Rokita, the attorney general of Indiana, filed two cases against TikTok. The first claims that the platform “lured youngsters” into the app’s content by using profanity, sexual references, or other inappropriate language. In the second case, the state asserts that TikTok, which is controlled by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, contains sensitive and personal information about Indiana residents and misleads them into thinking their data is secure from the Chinese government.

Abbott stated in a letter that “TikTok gathers enormous amounts of data from its users’ devices, including when, when, and how they conduct internet activity, and provides this treasure of potentially sensitive information to the Chinese government.”

According to a TikTok representative, false information about the company is “primarily fueling” bans of the app.

TikTok was prohibited from many government-issued phones and the military in 2020 by the Trump administration. The Biden administration has maintained that prohibition since then while looking into the app. The CIA acknowledged in 2020 that the Chinese government may intercept user information, but there was no evidence of that happening.