France to ban TikTok on work telephones of civil servants

A string of Western governments and establishments have banned TikTok in latest weeks, together with the UK parliament, the Dutch and Belgian administrations and the New Zealand parliament.

Paris,UPDATED: Mar 25, 2023 05:13 IST

A string of Western governments and establishments have banned TikTok in latest weeks. (Image: Reuters)

By Reuters: France will ban using Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok on the work telephones of civil servants, Civil Service Minister Stanislas Guerini stated on his Twitter account.

“In order to guarantee the cybersecurity of our administrations and civil servants, the government has decided to ban recreational applications such as TikTok on the professional phones of civil servants,” he stated in an announcement.

He added that for a number of weeks, a number of of France’s European and worldwide companions have adopted measures to limit or ban the downloading and set up of the TikTok software by their administrations.

Guerini stated leisure purposes do not need enough ranges of cybersecurity and information safety with a purpose to be deployed on administrations’ tools, including that the ban is efficient instantly and that authorities companies will monitor compliance.

He stated that, exceptionally, exemptions will be given for skilled causes, equivalent to institutional communication of an administration.

A string of Western governments and establishments have banned TikTok in latest weeks, together with the UK parliament, the Dutch and Belgian administrations and the New Zealand parliament.

Late final month, the European Union’s two greatest policy-making establishments – the Commission and the Council – banned TikTok from employees telephones for cybersecurity causes.

Concerns have mounted globally concerning the potential for the Chinese authorities to entry customers’ location and phone information by means of ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese guardian firm.

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Mar 25, 2023