Britain has announced an immediate ban on the Chinese application “TikTok” on devices used in government offices due to security concerns.
Secretary of State and Minister for Cyber Security Oliver Dowden told parliament: “We are immediately on government agencies Tick tock will ban the use of TikTok”.
He said that given the specific risks associated with government devices that may contain sensitive information, it is prudent and appropriate to limit the use of certain applications, especially those that access and store large amounts of data. .
Our approach follows the sanctions imposed by the US, Canada and the European Union, says Oliver Dowden.
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On Wednesday, China urged the US to stop “unprovoked attacks” on TikTok. Washington had asked Chinese parent company ByteDance to divest its stake in the app or face a ban on national security grounds.
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It should be noted that critics of the app, which is very popular among young people and is used to share short videos, accuse the Chinese authorities of giving access to the data of users around the world, but TikTok denies this.