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.

歐盟委員會以安全為由禁止在員工手機上使用 TikTok
布魯塞爾，2 月 23 日（路透社）- 歐盟行業負責人蒂埃里·布雷頓 (Thierry Breton) 周四表示，出於網絡安全原因，歐盟委員會已禁止其員工的公司電話使用中國短視頻共享應用程序 TikTok，這是第一個這樣做的歐盟機構。

Tiktok 由中國公司字節跳動所有，正受到政府和監管機構的審查，因為擔心中國政府可能會使用其應用程序收集用戶數據或提升其利益。

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