PHOENIX (AP) — Maricopa County leaders voted unanimously Wednesday morning to ban TikTok on government-owned devices.
The ban, approved by the Board of Supervisors of Arizona’s most populous county, is effective immediately.
The resolution to protect the privacy and security of the county’s data comes a month after Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs signed the same executive order. Prohibition of state devices.
It is the first county in Arizona to take this step, according to supervisor Thomas Galvin.
TikTok is a subsidiary of Chinese technology company ByteDance. Galvin said the risk is too great that the app could collect county data that the Chinese government could easily request.
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“Civil servants must be held to a higher standard,” Galvin said.
In April, Arizona’s three largest public universities also announced bans on TikTok on school-owned devices.
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