Kristi Noem, the Republican governor of South Dakota, signed an executive order Executive Order 2022-10, prohibiting the installation of TikTok on state-issued devices. The reason was national security concerns. TikTok’s parent company is China’s ByteDance, which has more than 1 billion users worldwide, including 135 million users in the United States. The executive order expresses concern that data collected by TikTok could be accessed by the Chinese government. The executive order, effective immediately, applies to all state workers, including contract workers.
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