Mon 06 March 2023:
As a security measure, NATO member Denmark’s Defense Ministry, on Monday, prohibited its employees from using the video-sharing app TikTok on their work phones.
It’s over security and data privacy for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd.
In a statement, the ministry said the Scandinavian country’s Center for Cyber Security had assessed there was a risk of espionage, and said that TikTok “asks for certain rights and access on the device.”
The military agency is part of Denmark’s foreign intelligence service.
The ministry said it would “ban the use of the app on official units,” saying “there were weighty security considerations within the defense ministry combined with a very limited work-related need to use the app.”
It said employees “are required to uninstall TikTok on service phones and other official devices as soon as possible if they have previously installed it.”
It was unclear how many members of the defense ministry had TikTok installed, or whether the ban extended to the armed forces.
The 179-member assembly voted last month against having TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure, citing “a risk of espionage.”
The United States announced last week that federal agencies had 30 days to remove TikTok from their systems and devices. In response to concerns that TikTok might be used to spread pro-Beijing views or collect user data, more than half of U.S. states, Congress, and the executive branch of the European Union have already banned it from devices used for official business.
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