Maine has become the latest state to ban TikTok from state-owned devices that connect to the government network.
The video-sharing app is owned and operated by ByteDance, which is a Chinese company that moved its headquarters to Singapore in 2020.
More than 28 U.S. states and the federal government have banned the popular app from state-owned devices. The U.S. armed forces have also have prohibited it on military devices.
Maine Information Technology notified executive branch workers on Thursday that TikTok poses a serious threat to the state’s network infrastructure.
Maine IT says the directive (pdf) is in response to “well-documented national security risks posed by TikTok” and “recently enacted federal legislation that prohibits the use of the application on all federal government devices.”…