The European Commission has taken a drastic decision: to ban the TikTok application from all professional devices of its members. The reason stems from doubts expressed regarding the protection of data collected by the Chinese application, to which the Chinese government might have access.
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Still, TikTok is no exception. As Olivier Bogaert explains, “all applications, which are social networks, will be interested in our activity.”
“In this way, we will be able to suggest content that we have “liked” for example“, adds the expert from the Computer crime unit, the web police in Belgium.
The Commission’s measure only applies, for the moment, to the Chinese application.
TikTok is used by 1.7 billion users worldwide.
