That seems reasonable

yes them need to work not be distracted by tiktok

Was this a problem in South Dakota? Or was this a preemptive action to make sure more free publicity for TikTok?

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The entire app needs to be banned and removed from both app stores

They should just ban the whole platform

Now do it on the state level and South Dakota is now one of the top states in the union.

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On the federal level preferably.

This is nothing new. You’re not allowed to install any 3rd party software on government systems without admin rights.

Now I expect a bunch of downvotes with no real reply, but is there any proof at all that TikTok poses a security risk?

The US can't just make up accusations without bringing tangible proof.

They want less pedophiles in Congress... if you wanna call that an advertisement for tiktok call it that... pesos already know about the app that's nothing new

It's a start at least......

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I think it is less a problem in South Dakota and more a reason for SD's governor to stoke fear of the other and further monopolize her loony fan base into disliking China.

No 🤦 it's because it's owned by the Chinese government

Is this really the best way to do this..? Banning specific apps? Is Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media app not collecting user and device info?

We should properly use all kinds of social media.

Installing anything not related to work should already be restricted from Gov-owned device in the first place.

How the fuck was TikTok allowed on any government device?

Work on what? There’s nothing but cows and magats in South Dakota lol

There is lots, if you care to read it google is your friend.

Small warning though it is fairly technical so if you don't know much about software it might not make any sense.

In 2020 the U.S. military banned TikTok. There’s your best security breaching proof you need.

Link?

I couldn't even install our company app on my work phone without administration rights (someone forgot to install it before giving it to me). Installing literally anything is lockdown.

I assume that that is the same is true of government phones as well. I'd sure as hell hope it is.

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You people really confuse me. Google is a search engine

And all Facebooks and Google apps.

Lol it has nothing to do with pedophiles and more to do with China.

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Yeah I’m not saying government employees should have TikTok on their phones; but we’re talking about South Dakota lol. This is more about the goofy governor trying to score some points by pretending to do something important. This is the same woman that gave trump a mini Mount Rushmore statue with his head added.

Wait… there’s a ‘south’ Dakota?! 😯

Facts

https://i.imgur.com/3EeNCl9.jpg

https://www.google.com/

Survey says:

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Definitely restricted on my company phone too, shoot, we're not allowed to have it on our personal phone as long as we want to connect it to my companies network.

It's crazy to me that people use their work devices for personal stuff, government-sector or not. In my line of work we constantly have people using their shitty company-issued phones and laptops to do their own private stuff, sometimes while on the company's networks. Why do you have to upload your family vacation photos to your shared drive? Why can't you just do that on your own phone?

You'd be surprised how non existent mobile device management is in some places. Especially for the higher ups that complain about everything until they get what they want.

It's not, but the media needs another tiktok story for clicks

Kind of not surprised, seeing that we have some gov-related worker install a Zuma game or something on their work PC in the office.

Thank god the secrets of the lesser of the Dakotas is safe!!!

As a sysadmin. No 3rd party apps not related specifically to the user completing their work tasks should even be installed to a company bound device. Users should be reprimanded for breaching device agreements and IT admins should be reprimanded for not locking these devices down properly.... if you want to watch shittoks do it on your own device...

It's allowed on millions of government devices. There is a bill in congress to remove it from federal agency devices but that hasn't passed. Not sure where you got your info from but it's wrong.

We don't have evidence those services are sending info to a foreign country.

According to militarytimes.com, it was only banned on government devices. Troops on military installations can still use it on personal devices.

Not as much as people make it out to be. The app is really just a chromium browser that loads the TikTok website. It's really not doing anything that other social platforms aren't. The biggest concern is data collection potentially going to China, but keep in mind the US version operates under a US company, ByteDance, on well-known Oracle servers.

Lol yeah it is, reddit too. Or maybe it's just mine.

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But when your IT guy is your boss's son updating adobe acrobat. Maybe some shit starts getting allowed.

Yeah and there are no proofs. I wanted to see what that idiot had to say.

Magical ways to steal data from American servers /s

You would think a government-issued device would be for government business only. I was offered a company phone when I got promoted but I wouldn’t have even been allowed to put my personal email on it or any games I play on my phone.

We count on that

I work for the feds. It varies by department and context but I have seen some departments issue partitioned cellphones with a personal and a business side. The idea of the personal side is to have access to social media, but some apps aren't available. In this case, even if an employee had access to a partitioned device, we likely still wouldn't allow for TikTok.

It was basically the department of tourism and all the state funded schools that used it for marketing that it affected

Meth, we’re on it. Tik tok, we’re not.

No need for TikTok on business phones for government employees at any level.

Yeah, this feels like a real non-story to me.

Pepe the frog green text IT story. Lmao.

So the nurses and make their tiktok dances "we are in this together"

South Dakota's government can ban whatever they want from their government-owned devices, but I can't help but just suspect this wasn't one of their cybersecurity analysts' top concerning software that needed to be addressed, and more a convenient political stunt. I mean TikTok shouldn't be on a government-owned device even if it was just an American company. But now South Dakota has single handedly defeated Chicom Intelligence agencies for sure! They'll have to now go buy all the personal data on everyone in South Dakota, just like every other company or group trying to spy on you :-)

> Especially for the higher ups that complain about everything until they get what they want.

This is the part that people usually ignore. It's the people above the head of IT Security that cause the most issues.

And didn't they pay for the mockup with Covid funds?

Why? Nobody has ever explained what evil TikTok is actually accused of. It just seems like anti-Chinese crypto-racism. I don't see how it can collect anywhere near as much sensitive personal data as something like Facebook.

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You would be surprised how much people don’t care to monitor that stuff

As South Dakota goes, so goes the nation.

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I was friends with a guy in IT and he said the people who failed the phishing tests sent out by them were almost always the executives. Someone got into the CEO’s email and tried to get our controller to wire $100k to some random bank account. Luckily it takes multiple executives to sign off on that kind of transfer out.