Danish defense ministry bans TikTok on employee work phones

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — NATO-member Denmark’s Protection Ministry on Monday banned its workers from having video-sharing app TikTok on their work telephones as a cybersecurity measure.

It’s the newest government-related ban over safety and knowledge privateness for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd.

In a press release, the ministry stated the Scandinavian nation’s Middle for Cyber Safety had assessed there was a danger of espionage, and stated that TikTok “asks for sure rights and entry on the machine.”

The navy company is a part of Denmark’s international intelligence service.

The ministry stated it could “ban using the app on official items,” saying “there have been weighty safety issues throughout the protection ministry mixed with a really restricted work-related want to make use of the app.”

It stated workers “are required to uninstall TikTok on service telephones and different official units as quickly as potential if they’ve beforehand put in it.”

It wasn’t instantly recognized what number of members of the protection ministry have TikTok put in, nor whether or not the ban additionally utilized to the armed forces.

Final month, Denmark’s Parliament urged lawmakers and workers on the 179-member meeting in opposition to having TikTok on work telephones as a cybersecurity measure, citing “a danger of espionage.”

Final week, the U.S. stated authorities companies have 30 days to delete TikTok from federal units and techniques. Greater than half of U.S. states, Congress, and the European Union’s govt department have already prohibited it from units used for official enterprise amid worries that TikTok might be used to advertise pro-Beijing views or sweep up customers’ info.

TikTok’s press workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.