European Commission prohibits installing TikTok to its workers: they indicated that it is for “security”

The The European Commission on Thursday banned its employees from installing the Chinese application TikTok on their mobile phones, citing reasons of “security”, just as the United States Congress has done with its workers.

“Since the beginning of the mandate, the European Commission has had a strong interest in cybersecurity (…) and in this area a decision has been taken today” to “preserve the institution”, said the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, without giving more details.

Brussels has been focusing its attention on TikTok and the rest of the big technology companies, and in this context, in January he met with the CEO of the Chinese company, Shou Zi Chew, whom threatened to ban its use in the European Union if it does not prevent minors from having access to “life-threatening videos” and if it does not prevent user data from being transferred to third countries.

The European Commission is thus following in the footsteps of United States, where Congress has prohibited legislators and their employees from installing the application on their official phones.

A measure that several states have also adopted, including Texas, Alabama or Tennessee, as well as other institutions such as the University of Florida.

The controversy in the US over the use of the Chinese application has worsened after the recent revelation that ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, used the social network to spy on journalists.

Source-larepublica.pe