The European Parliament has banned TikTok from staff phones, following in the footsteps of two top European Union policymaking institutions and underlining the mounting unease over the Chinese short video-sharing app and who accesses its user data.
The European Commission and the EU Council last week banned TikTok from staff phones due to growing concerns about the company, which is owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, and whether China’s government could harvest users’
data or advance its interests.The ban, starting from March 20, will apply to corporate devices such as mobile phones and tablets which are enrolled in Parliament’s mobile management application, a Parliament spokesperson said.
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