The ban on the use of the social network will take effect from January 2024.
The state of Montana became the first in the US to officially ban the use of the social network. TikTok. This decision was announced by the state governor, Greg Gianforte. He published the blocking document in your Twitter account*.
“I have instructed the State Chief Information Officer to ban any application that provides personal information or data to foreign adversaries from the state network,” he wrote on his Twitter* page.
Governor explained such a decision by the need to protect “the personal data of Montana residents from the Chinese Communist Party.”
According to the document, Apple and Google will have to remove the TikTok video service from their app stores. In case of non-compliance with the requirements of local authorities, corporations will face fines. The ban will only come into effect from January 2024.
In early March, in the US Congress was presented a bipartisan RESTRICT Act that empowered the US Secretary of Commerce to ban TikTok and other foreign technology from China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela on national security grounds. The bill was supported by President Joe Biden and 12 senators. With this law, the US authorities were expected to ban TikTok in the United States due to concerns about the transfer of personal data of US citizens to the Chinese government and the use of the application to spread disinformation.
* The social network is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation.
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