White House Says TikTok Concerns Remain Despite Biden Campaign Joining The Platform
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The White House said national security and privacy concerns still exist around TikTok despite President Joe Biden’s campaign joining the platform Sunday.
Biden signed a ban on the download and use of the social platform, owned by Chinese tech giant ByteDance, on government-owned devices in December 2022.
John Kirby, the National Security Council’s spokesperson, told reporters Monday that the issues that prompted the imposition of the ban for government-owned devices have not been resolved and that the policy remains in place.
“I don’t want to get into too much of the national security, technical reasons behind that. It does have to do with concerns about the preservation of data and the potential misuse of that data and privacy information by foreign actors,” Kirby said. “I think that’s as far as I can go.”
He added that questions about the president’s decision to join TikTok should be directed to his reelection campaign.
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