The Department of Justice has cleared federal employees to install TikTok on government-issued devices, reversing a ban that had kept the app off federal hardware.
This matters because government device policy is a direct signal of official threat assessment. If DOJ considers TikTok safe enough for federal workers, the legal and security arguments used to justify platform-wide bans lose significant ground.
The full article is worth reading for what it does not explain: which specific security controls changed, whether this applies across all agencies, and what the timing signals about the broader legislative push to force a ByteDance divestiture.
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