US senators seek to ban federal employees from using TikTok on their phones

The app has been rapidly growing in popularity among US teenagers and allows users to create short videos.

Two Republican senators on Thursday introduced a bill aimed at banning federal employees from using Chinese social media app TikTok on their government-issued phones, amid growing national security concerns around the collection and sharing of data on US users with China's government.
 

The bill by Senators Josh Hawley and Rick Scott comes as several US agencies that deal with national security and intelligence issues including the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security have banned employees from using the app.
 

It is also the latest attempt to rein in technology companies by Hawley, who has repeatedly clashed with big