EU Commission, citing security, bans TikTok on staff phones

BRUSSELS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - The European Commission has banned Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from its employees' corporate phones for cybersecurity reasons, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday, the first EU institution to do so.

Owned by Chinese firm ByteDance, Tiktok is under scrutiny from governments and regulators because of concerns that China's government could use its app to harvest users' data or advance its interests.

欧盟委员会以安全为由禁止在员工手机上使用 TikTok
布鲁塞尔，2 月 23 日（路透社）- 欧盟行业负责人蒂埃里·布雷顿 (Thierry Breton) 周四表示，出于网络安全原因，欧盟委员会已禁止其员工的公司电话使用中国短视频共享应用程序 TikTok，这是第一个这样做的欧盟机构。

Tiktok 由中国公司字节跳动所有，正受到政府和监管机构的审查，因为担心中国政府可能会使用其应用程序收集用户数据或提升其利益。

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-commission-staff-told-remove-tiktok-phones-eu-industry-chief-says-2023-02-23/