U.S. lifting the federal government's use ban on TikTok equipment

On 12 August, according to U.S. sources, on 11 August, the United States Government revoked a directive prohibiting the use of TikTok as a short video social platform on federal government equipment, as TikTok no longer posed a national security threat following the reorganization of United States operations. According to the information received, the White House Office of Management and Budget, in a memorandum, revoked this 2023 directive, which prohibited the use of TikTok on United States Federal Government equipment. Previously, the United States Department of Justice had issued a written opinion, concluding that TikTok was no longer a regulated application as defined in the relevant law. Since the end of 2022, the Federal Government of the United States and several states have banned the use of TikTok on government electronics, citing the so-called “data security”。