Some social media platforms (SPMs) can be entertaining, but they can also be illegal...if you’re a federal contractor.
In late 2022 as part of a larger budget bill, Congress passed the No TikTok on Government Devices Act. For anyone who was watching the news, the fundamental reasoning behind this is this SPM is a Chinese-owned company that gathers user information, whether you’re watching videos as a high school student in Des Moines or an IT worker at the Pentagon.
As part of this law, governmental agencies are directed by the Office of Management and Budget to remove from this SPM or anything else created or provided by the SPM’s company or its subsidiaries from all government devices. This includes removal from computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware, and anything that would connect to the larger systems utilized by the federal government which might be “used in the automatic acquisition, storage, analysis, evaluation, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data or information by the executive agency…” This is an extremely broad definition.
As of June 2, interim rules were issued by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council). FAR applied these rules to federal contractors as “a national security measure to protect government information and information in community technology systems.” This specifically means that federal contractors are...
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