Federal employees can download TikTok on government devices after ByteDance's divestiture, DOJ says

Federal employees can now download TikTok onto their government devices after a yearslong ban, according to a memo from the Department of Justice . This reversal comes after ByteDance, TikTok's Chinese parent company, transferred control of the app's U.S. user data and operations to TikTok U.S. Data Security (TikTok USDS), a majority American-owned joint venture. The deal was finalized in January. A 2022 law banned federal workers from having TikTok on government devices due to national security