As more GOP governors race to ban TikTok on state devices, a federal ban looms

TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is based in China. That has stoked concerns about data privacy. (Kiichiro Sato/AP)

As the U.S. Senate considers banning TikTok on federal devices as a part of its end-of-year spending bill, at least 16 Republican governors have recently taken that step at the state level.

They include North Dakota, Idaho, Iowa, Texas, South Dakota, South Carolina, Maryland, Utah, Oklahoma, Alabama, New Hampshire, Georgia, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming and Virginia.