FILE - This file photo, shows the icon for TikTok in New York on Feb. 25, 2020. A former executive at ByteDance, the Chinese company which owns popular short-video app TikTok says in a legal filing that some members of the ruling Communist Party used data held by the company to identify and locate protesters in Hong Kong.(AP Photo/File) (Uncredited, Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)
LEAGUE CITY, Texas – In a 6-2 vote, League City council voted Tuesday to ban TikTok from city-related devices and business.
The ban went into effect immediately.
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It is not a city-wide ban and city employees will still be able to use TikTok on their own personal devices.
In December, the governor ordered state agencies to immediately ban employees from downloading or using TikTok on government-issued devices. The governor cited security and data vulnerabilities.