US Home staffers are banned from having the favored social video app TikTok on their official gadgets, in response to a report from Reuters.

TikTok is now not allowed on workers gadgets as a result of it presents a “excessive danger resulting from numerous safety points,” in response to a memo that was despatched to workers Tuesday by the Home’s Chief Administrative Officer, the Reuters report says. Staffers who presently have the app on an official gadget should delete it and future downloads of TikTok will not be permitted. The Home is taking comparable steps to the US Senate, which handed its personal invoice to barr the app from federal gadgets earlier in December. 

Lawmakers have considerations that TikTok, which is owned by China-based dad or mum firm ByteDance, might be a nationwide safety risk. In November, FBI director Christopher Wray warned the Committee on International Funding in the USA that the app may very well be used “to manage information assortment on tens of millions of customers… or to manage software program on tens of millions of gadgets.” A measure to ban TikTok on authorities gadgets was included within the $1.7 trillion spending invoice handed by Congress final week, nevertheless it solely applies to the chief department and never Congress.

A TikTok spokesperson did not touch upon the brand new Home ban, however instructed CNET, “Now we have been working with the US Committee on International Funding for over two years to deal with all cheap nationwide safety considerations about TikTok within the US. We imagine these considerations might be totally resolved.”

The Workplace of the Chief Administrative Officer did not instantly reply to a request for remark.