France bans use of TikTok and Netflix on public servants' phones

A ministry source said the ban would include “gaming apps like Candy Crush, streaming apps like Netflix and 'leisure' as TikTok".

The French authorities' decision follows in the footsteps of several Western governments and institutions that have banned or limited the use of the video platform on professional devices, fearing espionage problems.

BBC asks staff to delete TikTok for fear of data usage

The British network BBC reported, this Monday (20), that it had asked its employees to delete the TikTok application from their corporate devices, except for professional needs, in a context of tightening measures against the Chinese platform in the West, fearing a data collection. 📱

Among them, the European Commission — the executive arm of the European Union — and the governments of the Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and New Zealand.

The video platform curtos, which has more than a billion active users currently, insisted that the Chinese government has no control or access to users' personal data.

However, the ByteDance had already acknowledged in November 2022 that some employees in China could have access to European user data. The following month, he explained that several collaborators used data to spy on journalists.

Authorities from the most populous country in the world emphasized this Friday (24) that they do not ask companies to provide data obtained abroad.

Beijing “has never asked and will not ask companies or individuals to collect or hand over data from foreign countries in a way that violates local law,” Mao Ning, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said at a news conference.

(To AFP)

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