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Jim-JM t1_j23a6rb wrote

TikTok joins the long list of apps banned on federal government devices.

The media are trying hard to make this a big news story.

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mr_blanket t1_j23r120 wrote

Right? I used to work for an agency as a 12 month temp. They gave us iPhones without an App Store, or any ability to log in as anything other than your work email.

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machina99 t1_j257piz wrote

Hell one of the law firms I worked for gave us work phones specifically so that if we got subpoenaed, we could hand over the work phone and be certain there was no personal data. And on the flip side it was easy to say no work material was on a personal device. In my experience, most of my friends that work at firms have two phones or use Samsung specifically for their secure folder feature.

It really should not be a big deal to have a totally separate work phone, especially when it's the government and anything done on it should be archived anyway

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North_Activist t1_j24poec wrote

Instead of banning individual apps it almost makes more sense to instead have a list of apps allowed

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ajprokos t1_j24vcea wrote

“Welcome to day 1 orientation. Here is your cubicle and your jitterbug company phone.”

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Jim-JM t1_j25zcbq wrote

Most companies have a list of approved apps that are permitted on company devices, just like government agencies. From my experience to get approval to an app that would make your work a lot easier is usually too painful to make the request worthwhile, I suspect it would be the same in the federal government.

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SFLADC2 t1_j25g03p wrote

I mean it's kinda big in that a lot of the younger members of Congress were trying to make TikTok accounts to appeal to the youths, despite the massive security concerns

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