Commission staff have until March 15 to delete the short-form video app, owned by China’s ByteDance, from work devices and any personal devices that use Commission apps and services. Based in Brussels, the European Commission is the executive arm of the European Union, responsible for proposing and enforcing legislation and implementing the EU budget. It employs around 32,000 permanent and contract workers.
” The measure piles further pressure on TikTok, already banned from US federal government devices and from official devices in some US states due to fears that the app’s user data could wind up in the hands of the Chinese government. Previously, TikTok has disclosed to European users that China-based employees may access EU users’ data. But on Thursday the company pushed back against the ban, calling it “misguided and based on fundamental misconceptions.
Europe is too fragile to be constantly looking down their nose at other countries.
Sweet! Now ban it from personal devices too.
In the meanwhile people agree with terms to let their emails scanned by Google or let their pictures scanned by Apple.
Very well, the next is the secret police and concentration camps
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Cybersecurity Are you serious people?