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Some IRS employees still access TikTok despite ban on government devices

The TikTok ban on U.S. government devices is proving hard to enforce. A month after the IRS was found to be in non-compliance with the federally mandated

The IRS hadn’t asked for the Criminal Investigation division to be exempt from the ban through official channels, nor had it cut off employees’ TikTok access, the report said. It also pushed back at the idea that the Criminal Investigation division chief should come up with a plan to fully cut off employee access to the app, saying it would use its own internal process to determine exceptions. When TIGTA found that TikTok was accessible on 23 phones used by employees in the Communications and Liason group, which monitors social media, they were cut off from the app.

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