Distrust of TikTok, the Chinese social network, continues to grow.
Employees of the European Commission received an email on Thursday morning asking them to uninstall the application on their professional but also personal devices using the Commission's applications.
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To protect the Commission's data and increase its cybersecurity, the European Commission's Management Board has decided to suspend the TikTok application on professional and personal devices registered as mobile devices with the institution," the email said
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The stated objective of this measure is to protect the institution's data and computer system against possible cyberattack threats.
Employees are therefore invited to delete the application no later than March 15, otherwise access to certain internal digital tools such as the mailbox or Skype will be suspended.
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We are disappointed with this decision, which we believe is wrong and based on misconceptions
," TikTok responded in a statement.
The social network, owned by the Chinese group ByteDance, continues to arouse mistrust in many countries.
TikTok had admitted that its staff in China had access to the personal data of European users.
In the United States, the congress banned the application at the end of December on all government devices while the CEO, Shou Zi Chew, must be heard by the American institution at the end of March.
In France, the Senate agreed in early February to open a commission of inquiry into "
the use of the social network [...], its exploitation and its strategy of influence
".
