European Commission employees are no longer allowed to have TikTok on their personal devices or work phones. This would be a security measure.
The European Commission is imposing this ban for security reasons involving the Chinese-origin platform. Employees should uninstall the video app from their work phones, and if they use personal gadgets for work, they should also remove the app from them. If they do not want to do without TikTok, they are forced to remove their professional apps from their personal phone (so that they do not all end up on the same device). This is what the Commission said at a press conference. The rule will go into effect on March 15, Politico reveals.
This is the first time that the European Commission has banned the use of an app on its devices. The video app, which belongs to the Chinese company ByteDance, has been in the crosshairs of Western authorities for quite a long time. They fear that Beijing has access to Western user data. The US House of Representatives had previously banned TikTok on the service phones of parliamentarians and their aides.
Canada
This week, Canada also announced that it was starting an investigation into Tiktok. It is regarding a confidentiality investigation which ‘follows the lawsuits filed in the United States and Canada, which have meanwhile been judged, and the numerous articles which have appeared in the media’, according to the commissioner in charge of privacy . Canadian authorities want to verify if ‘TikTok has obtained permission to collect, use and make public personal information’.
The European Commission is imposing this ban for security reasons involving the Chinese-origin platform. Employees should uninstall the video app from their work phones, and if they use personal gadgets for work, they should also remove the app from them. If they do not want to do without TikTok, they are forced to remove their professional apps from their personal phone (so that they do not all end up on the same device). This is what the Commission said at a press conference. The rule will come into force on March 15, Politico reveals. This is the first time that the European Commission has banned the use of an app on its devices. The video app, which belongs to the Chinese company ByteDance, has been in the crosshairs of Western authorities for quite a long time. They fear that Beijing has access to Western user data. The US House of Representatives had previously banned TikTok from the office phones of parliamentarians and their aides. This week, Canada also announced that it was starting an investigation into Tiktok. It is regarding a confidentiality investigation which ‘follows the lawsuits filed in the United States and Canada, which have meanwhile been judged, and the numerous articles which have appeared in the media’, according to the commissioner in charge of privacy . Canadian authorities want to verify if ‘TikTok has obtained permission to collect, use and make public personal information’.
