March 30 () –
The Estonian Minister of Foreign Trade, Kristjan Järvan, reported this Thursday in an interview for the EPL newspaper that the Chinese application TikTok will be banned from all official mobile phones this month.
However, he has explained that “if a public official uses his private mobile at work, we will not monitor him.”
The app has already been banned on official devices in the United States, Canada, Belgium, France, India, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Great Britain and New Zealand and is pending in the Netherlands.
Officials in several countries have repeatedly expressed concern that the Chinese government could pressure ByteDance — the company that owns TikTok — to hand over information collected from users for intelligence purposes. or misinformation.
