A new round was lived in the technological battle that the United States and China have waged for decades: The administrative director of the US Congress, Catherine Szpindor, sent a strong message to the members of the House of Representatives and to the employees of the Congress: ninguno might use the Tik Tok partner network.
But not only the guideline goes to those who are just going to download the application, it was also promulgated for those employees who had already downloaded it; they will be prompted to remove the app that has become all the rage.
The reasons given by Szpindor is that through this application the “security risks” are increasedwhich is why the entire technological system of the United States must be shielded and, in this sense, they want to root out the application and its functionality, which they have given the description of being a platform that serves to espionage the US citizens.
Under the norm, falready signed by President Joe Biden during his vacation19 states have raised the same concerns regarding Twitter accounts and expressed their intention to shut them down.
“The app can track mobile phone locations and collect internet browsing data, including when users visit unrelated websites,” Congressman Mike Gallagher wrote in a Washington Post column.
with the ad, Tik Tok’s representative in the United States, Brooke Oberwetter, expressed disappointment and described the decision as “a political gesture that will do nothing to promote the interests of national security”, and lowered the profile of the statements by asserting that the content platform is not a route for espionage