The Blubber

U.S. House of representatives committee approves bill to give Biden power to ban TikTok.

Additionally, TikTok announced that they will limit screen time for users under 18 to just 60-minutes a day.

TikTok said the new limit comes after it brought in a prompt last year to encourage teens to manage their screen time. It said this helped "increase the use of our screen time tools by 234%".

Users of the platform have to be at least 13, and, as part of this new feature, anyone under the age of 18 will receive a weekly notification with a "recap of their screen time".It comes as TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech company ByteDance, faces renewed controversy over its relationship with the Chinese government and protection of user data.

Earlier this week, the Canadian government became the latest to ban the app from government devices, following similar moves in the United States.

In September 2021, TikTok said it had hit more than one billion active monthly users, making it one of the biggest social sites in the world.

Recently, Canada bans TikTok from all federal government devices.

It stated that TikTok presents an "unacceptable" level of risk to privacy and security.

In December, the US Senate voted to ban TikTok from all government devices.

Reportedly, Reuters states that a proposal will be included to do the same in a key spending bill, which won backing by Nancy Pelosi and Kevin McCarthy last week.

This week, Louisiana and West Virgina banned TikTok on governmental devices.

That leaves some 19 of the 50 US states have now at least partially blocked access on government computers to TikTok.

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