New Jersey, Ohio join other states in banning TikTok from state devices

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New Jersey and Ohio said on Monday they were joining other states in banning use of the popular video app TikTok on government-owned and managed devices.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, a Democrat, said in addition to banning TikTok from state devices he also was banning software vendors, products, and services from more than a dozen vendors including Huawei, Hikvision, Tencent Holdings (OTC:TCEHY) LTD, ZTE (HK:0763) Corporation and Kaspersky Lab.