The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill to ban the TikTok application from state-issued devices. This decision was made to protect the data on government devices.
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"We need to protect the data that exists on state government devices," Mills said."And one very practical way of doing this is to remove a known data mining app from all the state of Kentucky’s digital devices and computers, as this bill does."recently took executive action to prohibit the use of TikTok on executive branch devices. The bill would place the ban into state law.
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