Staff working at the European Commission have been ordered to remove the TikTok app from their phones and corporate devices.

The commission said it was implementing the measure to "protect data and increase cybersecurity".

TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has faced allegations that it harvests users' data and hands it to the Chinese government.

TikTok insists it operates no differently from other social media.

European Union (EU) industry chief Thierry Breton told a news conference that the union's executive is very focused on cybersecurity, declining to provide further details.

The ban also means that European Commission staff cannot use TikTok on personal devices that have official apps installed.

 

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Fair enough. Work devices are for work not personal social media <deleted>. 

"bbc.com
European Commission bans TikTok on staff devices
The organisation, which has around 32,000 employees, says the measure is to increase cybersecurity." 

 

They want to increase cybersecurity. I was hoping they want to increase productivity. 

16 minutes ago, Mickeymaus said:

"bbc.com
European Commission bans TikTok on staff devices
The organisation, which has around 32,000 employees, says the measure is to increase cybersecurity." 

 

They want to increase cybersecurity. I was hoping they want to increase productivity. 

I imagine that they hope to increase productivity as well. It's a goal for most organisations.

A friend has very recently put his professional life at risk by inadvertently posting a tik tok video to his social media which was picked up by many within his professional life.

 

Apart from his evident lack of one handed keyboard skills, what on earth was a man in his fifties doing watching that stuff?

 

His job, ‘Corporate Counsel’.