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The Florida State University System Board of Governors has banned the social media app TikTok, along with a number of other software, apps, and developers, from use on university-owned devices.” due to the constant and growing cyber threat landscape”.
In a memo sent to state university system presidents on Wednesday, Prime Minister Ray Rodrigues said: “This regulation requires institutions to remove technologies published on the List of Disappeared Technologies. prohibited by the State University System (SUS) from any university-owned equipment and intercepts network traffic associated with these technologies.”
The ban is effective immediately, the memo said.
“Data privacy, particularly regarding student data and faculty research, is an important priority for the Florida State University System,” the Board of Governors said in a statement to CNN.
“Therefore, at the March 29 meeting of the Florida Board of Governors, the Board unanimously adopted an emergency regulation prohibiting the use of TikTok and other foreign actors identified as national security risks. in the immediate future, across our 12 public university campuses,” according to the Board of Trustees.
In addition to TikTok, prohibited technologies include Kaspersky, VKontakte, Tencent QQ, WeChat and any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.
CNN has reached out to them for comment.
TikTok spokeswoman Hilary McQuaide said, “TikTok has taken unprecedented action to address national security concerns by securing US user data on US soil. The best way to address national security concerns is to protect U.S. users’ data and systems in a transparent, US-based way, with strong oversight, testing, and verification by US users. third party we are deploying.”
McQuaide adds, “TikTok is loved by more than 150 million Americans, including college and university students and teachers, to participate in the classroom.”
Bans and regulations against TikTok in particular and of social networking sites in general are increasing in the US and Europe due to growing concerns about privacy, national security and children’s safety. increase.
Late last month, the governor of Wyoming signed a bill requiring youth to receive Parental consent to use social media. Earlier this week, the UK’s Office of the Information Commissioner, the data regulator, TikTok is fined for some violations of data protection law. Italy is investigating TikTok for “dangerous content”.
