Federal employees can download TikTok on their work phones again

The Department of Justice says that national employees tin present download TikTok connected their authorities devices, according to Reuters.

A 2022 instrumentality banned national employees from utilizing the short-form video app connected those devices, but the DOJ reportedly says the instrumentality nary longer applies, acknowledgment to a woody transferring ownership of TikTok’s U.S. operations to a associated task backed by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX. (Oracle serves arsenic the information spouse for the caller associated venture, portion erstwhile proprietor ByteDance retains a 19.9% stake.)

The DOJ memo reportedly says President Donald Trump has cleared “employees of Executive Branch agencies” to “download TikTok onto their authoritative devices, taxable ​to the agency’s discretion and accordant with each applicable workplace policies.”

Following the prohibition focused connected authorities employees and devices, the app was banned much broadly crossed the United States. But arsenic the instrumentality was acceptable to instrumentality effect aboriginal past year, the app lone went down briefly earlier Trump repeatedly delayed the determination and urged work providers to reconstruct access.