TikTok: It’s New Zealand’s turn to ban a Chinese app on MPs’ phones
In the wake of Great Britain, Denmark, the European Parliament, Canada … the TikTok app will be banned from the end of March on phones that can connect to the New Zealand Parliament’s network.
A government official announced Friday that New Zealand will block Chinese video app TikTok on phones that access the New Zealand Parliament’s network. The head of the parliamentary service, Rafael Gonzalez Montero, said the app will be blocked from the end of March on phones that can connect to the New Zealand Parliament’s network.
TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny over concerns that user data from the app owned by Beijing-based ByteDance could end up in the hands of the Chinese government, hurting the security interests of Western countries. On Thursday, Britain announced the ban on the Chinese app on the work phones of its civil servants.
“vague” rules
On February 28, Denmark and the European Parliament already banned their members from using the social network, in line with the United States, Canada or the European Commission.
according to France informationBy this summer, the Army Department will publish a new guide to the behavior of soldiers who use TikTok to deal with the “vague” rules it accuses them of. “We could go as far as advising them not to use the app,” even slips a ministry member.
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