Government-owned smartphone bans are dumb and pointless
Basically all government employees with a work phone also have a personal phone. The bans are empty theater that fixes nothing and fools nobody.
The Chinese government could spy on or influence Americans via Chinese ByteDance-owned TikTok, so the American government banned TikTok on the four million or so US government-owned devices issued to employees.
Other governments boldly stepped in line to copy the US initiative. The UK banned TikTok on government phones. So did the European Union, New Ze…
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