一、美国政府对TikToK的打击达到了新高度
美国政府对中国TikTok的打击达到了新的高度。美国众议院通过了禁止在政府机关使用的设备上使用抖音的法律，现在又禁止众议院议员及其工作人员在公务设备上使用抖音。
据路透社报道，在周二的一封电子邮件中，众议院首席行政官办公室(CAO)告诉议员和工作人员，TikTok现在已在官方设备上被禁止，并解释说，该应用程序被认为是“由于一些安全问题而存在高风险”。CAO是一个负责后勤和技术支持等众议院运作的无党派办公室，随后指示电子邮件收件人在其官方设备上删除TikTok。
根据Gizmodo获得的一份邮件副本，首席行政官Catherine Szpindor 在邮件中写道:“众议院工作人员不允许在任何众议院移动设备上下载TikTok应用程序。Tik Tok不允许在家庭移动设备上使用。如果你的家庭移动设备上有TikTok应用程序，我们会联系你删除它。”
此外，今后将禁止下载该应用程序。TikTok母公司字节跳动提供的任何后续应用程序或服务也被禁止。
二、CAO发言人：该政策不适用于个人设备，只适用于众议院的官方设备
周三上午，CAO的一位发言人告诉Gizmodo，该政策不适用于个人设备，只适用于众议院的官方设备。
就在CAO发出这封邮件的几天前，众议院通过了1.66万亿美元的政府拨款法案，也被称为综合法案，该法案现在将送交Joe Biden总统签署。这项综合法案包括一项禁止在行政级别机构使用的设备上播放TikTok的措施。CAO在电子邮件中说，该法案通过后，由加利福尼亚州民主党参议员Zoe Lofgren担任主席的众议院行政委员会(Committee on House Administration)授权CAO在众议院实施类似的政策。
众议院对TikTok的禁令是美国政府对TikTok母公司字节跳动的怀疑的最新例证。上周，该公司被曝四名员工访问了美国记者的TikTok数据，试图寻找泄露的信息，字节跳动受到了抨击。
州和联邦议员认为，TikTok出于邪恶目的收集美国人的情报。19个州已经部分禁止在州设备上使用TikTok。TikTok否认了这些指控，并试图通过保证美国用户数据将存储在甲骨文在美国的服务器上来缓解人们的担忧。
The American government’s campaign against Chinese-owned TikTok has reached new heights.
The American government’s campaign against Chinese-owned TikTok has reached new heights. After passing a law that bans TikTok on devices used by government agencies, the U.S. House of Representatives is blocking its members and their staffers from using TikTok on official devices.
In an email on Tuesday, the House Office of the Chief Administrative Officer, or CAO, told representatives and staff that TikTok was now banned on official devices, explaining that the app is considered “high risk due to a number of security issues,” Reuters reports. The CAO, a nonpartisan office in charge of House operations such as logistics and tech support. Then proceeded to instruct the email recipients to delete TikTok on their official devices.
“House staff are NOT allowed to download the TikTok app on any House mobile devices,” Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor wrote in the email, according to a copy obtained by Gizmodo. “Tik Tok is NOT allowed on House mobile devices. If you have the TikTok app on your House mobile device, you will be contacted to remove it.”
In addition, downloading the app in the future will be forbidden. Any successor app or service provided by ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, is also banned.
A spokesperson for the CAO told Gizmodo on Wednesday morning that the policy only to official House devices.
A spokesperson for the CAO told Gizmodo on Wednesday morning that the policy does not apply to personal devices. This policy is only to official House devices.
The CAO’s email comes just days after the House passed the $1.66 trillion government funding bill, also known as the omnibus bill, which will now head to President Joe Biden for signing. The omnibus bill included a measure to ban TikTok on devices used by executive-level agencies. After its passage, the Committee on House Administration, chaired by Democratic Sen. Zoe Lofgren of California, authorized the CAO to implement a similar policy for the House, the CAO said in its email.
The House TikTok ban is the latest example of the U.S. government’s suspicion of ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, which came under fire last week after it was revealed that four company employees had accessed the TikTok data of U.S. journalists in an attempt to find leaks.
State and federal lawmakers believe TikTok is gathering intelligence on Americans for nefarious purposes. Nineteen states have partially banned TikTok on state devices. TikTok has denied these accusations and attempted to assuage fears by guaranteeing that Americans’ user data will be stored on Oracle servers in the United States.
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