<story><title>New York City bans TikTok for government employees</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicash</author><text>&amp;quot;from government devices&amp;quot; seems important to the title&lt;p&gt;Edit: also, this article simply re-reports a Verge article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;23834579&amp;#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-new-york-china-surveillance-spy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;23834579&amp;#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-n...&lt;/a&gt; Props to Engadget for citing their source, but just think that the Verge deserves that shout-out here too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toomuchtodo</author><text>Banning non business critical apps from corp&amp;#x2F;org devices is just good security hygiene. Would probably not even be PR if the MDM policy was pushed and when people asked, IT said &amp;quot;no non business apps.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>New York City bans TikTok for government employees</title><url>https://www.engadget.com/new-york-city-bans-tiktok-for-government-employees-174806575.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elicash</author><text>&amp;quot;from government devices&amp;quot; seems important to the title&lt;p&gt;Edit: also, this article simply re-reports a Verge article: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;23834579&amp;#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-new-york-china-surveillance-spy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.theverge.com&amp;#x2F;2023&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;16&amp;#x2F;23834579&amp;#x2F;nyc-tiktok-ban-n...&lt;/a&gt; Props to Engadget for citing their source, but just think that the Verge deserves that shout-out here too.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zffr</author><text>Yeah, this seems completely reasonable IMO.</text></comment>