The University of Texas at Austin, one of the nation's largest college campuses, said on Tuesday that it has banned TikTok from its networks and begun to remove the China-owned app from government-issued devices over concerns about data privacy.
The University of Texas at Dallas, a separate campus, said in a message to students on Tuesday that it began removing TikTok from university-owned devices last month and would take the additional step of blocking access to TikTok on its Wi-Fi network. More than half of U.S. states have taken steps toward a partial or full ban of TikTok on government devices.