The United States of America might soon ban TikTok.
TikTok ban in America: TikTok could soon face a permanent ban in the United States of America over security concerns. The House has voted for a bill banning TikTok on federal devices. Politicians are concerned as the Chinese social networking platform could be a threat to their national security. A Senate bill is expected to pass soon. For its part, TikTok has repeatedly maintained that it doesn’t share data from its app with the Chinese government.
Republican Ken Buck offered the proposal to bar TikTok from federal devices as part of a $741 billion defence policy bill, according to a report in Politico on Monday. The House passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 by a vote of 295 to 125 on Tuesday.
There is no guarantee yet that the ban will become an act as the Senate is expected to pass its version of the bill later this week and thereafter the two chambers will sort out their differences before sending it for the President's signature.
But the Donald Trump administration has already voiced its concerns about TikTok and even hinted that it was considering banning the app. Earlier, on June 29, India banned 59 Chinese apps which also included the video-sharing app owned by Chinese unicorn ByteDance. The app came under the scanner of security services over fears of it sharing user data with the Chinese government.
TikTok has denied the allegations.
With inputs from IANS
