China-based social media application TikTok has been banned from the US states of New Jersey and Ohio. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced that it is prohibited to log into the TikTok application of the Chinese company ByteDance from devices belonging to official institutions. "There are national security concerns regarding the user data that the Chinese government may request from ByteDance," Murphy's office said in a statement.
Ohio Governor Mike DeWine also argued that local and national cybersecurity threats are created by the storage of platform users' data on devices.
In the statement made by TikTok
officials, it was stated that they were disappointed with the bans and that the application did not contain any cyber security threats.
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers also announced that they are planning to ban the TikTok application, which has more than 100 million users in the USA, from devices belonging to official institutions, in line with the decisions taken by other states.
