The US Army has banned TikTok. This move was earlier reported by militery.com under the guidance from the Pentagon. On 16 th December it was found that, there is a security risk associated with use of TikTok on the mobile phones through a cyber awareness message. The message gives direction to the employee to take an order to safeguard their personal information.

Sen.Chuck Schumer expressed worries about Army recruiting efforts that use the app. After which the US army prohibited cadets from using the TikTok. Due to cyber security concerns, US navy also banned the Chinese app from government issued mobiles.

TikTok is very popular in US specially in teenagers, but in recent months it has come under critical observation from US regulators and law makers.

ByteDance released transparency report which includes request made by government agencies and law enforcement on December 30. According to the letter published in October ByteDance hired the law from Kand L gates in order to help or strengthen its data protection policies. It’s not known marine corps or air force had implemented that similar polices, no service can ban TikTok from personal phones which still leaves some concern by security.

In mid of December army warned soldiers, at the same time defence department was telling employee to delete TikTok. According to Ochoa, The Army ask to be wary of strange texts but it is depended on the troops to avoid sharing valuable or important data