EU Officials Told to Remove TikTok From Official Devices Due to Security Concerns

Extra dangerous information for TikTok, with EU IT officers calling for Authorities staff to remove the app from their devices, citing safety considerations.

As reported by Euractiv:

“The EU govt’s IT service has requested all Fee staff to uninstall TikTok from their company units, in addition to the private units utilizing company apps, citing information safety considerations.”

It’s the primary large transfer in opposition to TikTok in Europe, and follows related warnings and actions taken in US states, the place many regional governments have banned the app on official devices.

TikTok can be underneath investigation by the White House which could lead on to a attainable nationwide ban, with the FBI and the FCC each recommending the app be faraway from US app shops due to considerations that the corporate could possibly be sharing info on US residents with the Chinese language Authorities.

TikTok has repeatedly denied that it has, or will share info with the CCP, however an investigation late final yr did uncover employees from TikTok’s mother or father firm ByteDance utilizing TikTok info to track contacts of US journalists.  

Amid ongoing tensions with China, TikTok could possibly be caught within the center, and it appears inevitable that, at some stage, the US Authorities will want to make a name on the app, a technique or one other, that might see it banned or restricted within the US.

Including Europe into the combination expands the considerations, and it logically follows that if the US bans TikTok, many different western nations may even comply with go well with, according to safety considerations.

TikTok’s nonetheless engaged on a deal to separate US user data from China, and if I had to wager, that does appear to be that would be the extra seemingly consequence, given the billions in potential income on the road. If the US strikes to ban the app, ByteDance might look to promote TikTok to a US proprietor, because it did when former President Donald Trump sought to ban the app in 2020.

Will that appease EU considerations too? We’ll have to wait and see, nevertheless it does appear to be TikTok’s day of reckoning is coming, someday quickly.