TSA Bans Employees From Using TikTok 15
The Transportation Security Administration told employees to stop posting to TIkTok on Sunday, after New York Senator Chuck Schumer raised security concerns about the China-owned app. The Verge reports: The TSA's announcement to ban employees from using TikTok came shortly after Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) penned a letter to its administrator, David Pekoske, requesting that the agency halt its use. According to The Hill, TSA employees have used TikTok to create and post videos explaining some of the agency's boarding processes and rules. The Department of Homeland Security, which houses the TSA, banned the use of TikTok from government-issued devices last month. Schumer cited this policy in his letter on Saturday. In December, the US Army banned soldiers from using the app, too. "TSA has never published any content to Tik Tok nor has it ever directed viewers to Tik Tok," a TSA spokesperson told The Verge. "A small number of TSA employees have previously used Tik Tok on their personal devices to create videos for use in TSA's social media outreach, but that practice has since been discontinued."
How about ... (Score:5, Insightful)
...telling them not to let guns, knives and hand-grenades through when inspectors check their efficacy?
Re:How about ... (Score:4, Insightful)
I would rather they be consistent rather than being effective when there is an inspector. A false sense of security is dangerous.
Re:How about ... (Score:5, Insightful)
But that false sense of security is 99% of their job...
Re:How about ... (Score:5, Insightful)
But creating a false sense of security is basically their job description.
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But we all know that. If they were somehow occasionally effective, we might come to believe they improve our safety.
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The problem with defense is that it has to be effective all the time. Your castle is still unprotected if you have 3 out of the 4 walls up. It's not 75% defended.
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Terrible headline - only banned from official use (Score:4, Informative)
"The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it has stopped allowing employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency "
Hardly the same as telling them they can't use the app to post goofy videos with their kids. Totally reasonable.
Not banned. Only discontinued for official use (Score:1)
Can the idiot editors at Slashdot get something right for a change?
Employees have not been banned outright from using tik tok. They've only been directed not to use it for official TSA business (like the mentioned social media outreach program).
Employees are still free to use their personal tik tok accounts from their personal phones on their personal time from outside secured areas of an airport.
Re: Effective Use (Score:1)
That works too but a lot of people don't know the definition of the Yiddish term schmuck.
Why not ... (Score:2)