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Stu Johnson

Kentucky Senate takes action regarding TikTok use in state government

The Kentucky Senate has voted unanimously to prohibit the use of TikTok on any state government network or any state government-issued device. Henderson Senator Robby Mills told his colleagues Friday morning multiple media outlets have reported the Chinese-owned company mines huge amounts of private data.

“We need to protect the data that exists on state government devices. And one very practical way of doing this is to remove a known data mining app from all the state of Kentucky’s digital devices and computers,” said Mills.

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