European Commission bans staff from using TikTok

European Commission bans staff from using TikTok

 Staff who work in a key European Union branch have been ordered to remove the tick tock app from their phones and any other device that also has official EU programs The European Commission says it is taking measures to protect data and increase cyber security Tick Tock is owned by China by bite dance, faces numerous allegations that it collects user data and hands it over to the Chinese

 government, however, Tick Tock insists that it doesn't operate any differently than other social media platforms, so let's bring our Tech Reporter Shawna McCallum and Shauna I It means it's not surprising, it's been kind of a long time that's been going well, so we heard from the EC this morning that they're going to issue this ban, and I think that's because of a lot of concerns not just in Europe, but

 really around the world about what Tick ​​Tock handles our data, so as you mentioned, they own bike dance, which is a Chinese company, and there are indeed cyber security concerns if TikTok is on our phones, reads our emails, looks at our contact list, has access to our photos and releases this information back to the Chinese government, so the EC sees this morning that it was cyber security and that the

 employees there, 32,000 of them state staff working at the European Commission and they won't be able to have Tick-Tock on their devices, including their personal devices if they have any of their work apps installed and of course that includes um iPhone tablets all kinds of device cases that could have Tick Tock on them, uh he's from the back of the US doing something pretty similar yes that's right last

 year the senate voted unanimously to pass a bill that would prevent federal employees from having tickers on their devices too so if you're a government official in the US and this rule is already in place, not only in the US, although the Dutch authorities also told their government the same thing and issued 

a warning about it, maybe Tick Tock could know about us and where the data is now í heading Tech talk said they now have three data centers here in Europe and to show a bit more transparency they deny that any data we have on our mobiles through TikTok ends up um in a Chinese government store but of course, there are concerns given that, that bike dance and you know he basically owns Tick Tock so it's 

not just a problem in Europe but worldwide and it will be interesting to see if anyone is following the EC on this I have approached the European Parliament and the European Parliament to find out if the European Council could do the same thing they said they wanted to find out what the commission 

was doing. Alicia Cairns, who is the MP, said she's going to delete tick tack and she's urging other people in the government here to delete tick task, so we'll see and you know if it follows through