FedScoop: TikTok can be on government phones. Managing it comes next.

August 11, 2026

“’What I see with this calculus is very little benefit for very high risk,’ said Calli Schroeder, a senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a nonprofit privacy research organization. ‘This exponentially increases security risk on all of these devices where TikTok will be downloaded, and it’s for what benefit?’

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