After the European Commission and the European Council, the European Parliament has agreed to ban the Chinese short-form video-sharing software TikTok from employee phones for security reasons.
An EU official stated on Tuesday that the decision is expected to be made shortly and that the planned ban will also apply to private devices that have access to the Parliament’s network and email.
Due to worries over data security, the European Council, the EU’s main legislative body, and the European Commission, the EU’s executive body, last week forbade its personnel from installing TikTok on work-related devices.
Because to concerns over Beijing’s access to user data, Western nations have been paying closer attention to TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is based in China.
On Tuesday, the Danish parliament also said that it had requested that all employees and members delete the video-sharing app from their mobile devices due to the “danger of surveillance.”