By Chris Boyette | CNN
The State College System of Florida Board of Governors has banned the social media app TikTok, together with another software program, functions, and builders, from use on university-owned units “as a result of continued and growing panorama of cyber threats.”
In a memo despatched to state college system presidents on Wednesday, Chancellor Ray Rodrigues stated, “This regulation requires establishments to take away applied sciences revealed within the State College System (SUS) Prohibited Applied sciences Record from any university-owned gadget and to dam community site visitors related to these applied sciences.”
The ban is efficient instantly, the memo stated.
“Knowledge privateness, significantly regarding scholar information and school analysis, is a important precedence for the State College System of Florida,” the Board of Governors stated in an announcement to CNN.
WeChat, Tencent additionally barred
“Due to this fact, at a March 29 assembly of the Florida Board of Governors, the Board unanimously authorized an emergency regulation prohibiting using TikTok and different overseas actors recognized as an instantaneous nationwide safety danger, throughout our 12 public college campuses.”
Along with TikTok, the prohibited applied sciences embrace Kaspersky, VKontakte, Tencent QQ, WeChat and any subsidiary or affiliate.
Bans and rules of Tik Tok specifically, and of social media websites typically, have been mounting.
Utah additionally regulating use
Late final month, the governor of Utah signed a invoice which requires teenagers to get parental approval to make use of social media. Earlier this week, the UK’s Data Commissioner’s Workplace, which regulates information, fined Tik Tok for a variety of breaches of information safety legislation.
CNN has reached out to every for remark.