We recently echoed the problems that the American regulatory bodies had with TikTok, especially when the House of Representatives banned the use of TikTok on the terminals provided by it, In addition to being the CEO of TikTok himself, waiting to testify before Congress this March.
Now, as can be read in the Wall Street Journalit seems that Europe is beginning to have the same suspicions, and it is that The use of TikTok on European Commission devices has been bannedfor fear of possible leaks of personal data derived from the intrusion that the Chinese government may have towards any entity that collects a large amount of user data.
This prohibition follows the steps that have already been seen previously, forcing to uninstall the application of the terminals intended for work in the European Commission, as well as those devices that are connected to a professional email account, obviously prohibiting its installation afterwards.
We will have to see how this evolves, since there are not a few workers, both European and American, who they suspect the possibility of Beijing forcing TikTok to provide data of the users of the applicationsomething that would confirm the suspicions of both regulatory bodies.
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Jordi Bercial
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