The UK on Thursday announced an immediate ban on the TikTok app on government devices due to security concerns. “We will ban the use of TikTok on government devices,” with “immediate effect,” Minister of State Oliver Dowden, whose portfolio includes cybersecurity, told parliament. The app for sharing short videos, very popular among young people, is accused by its critics of giving Chinese authorities access to user data around the world, which TikTok disputes.
China on Wednesday urged the United States to stop "unwarranted attacks" on TikTok, after the US government demanded that its Chinese parent company divest from it or face a ban on national security grounds. According to the Wall Street Journal and other American dailies, the White House has issued an ultimatum: if TikTok remains in the hands of its owner, the Chinese group ByteDance, it will be banned in the United States.
TikTok has confirmed to Agence France-Presse that the US government has recommended that the app owner be handed over. Washington "has so far provided no evidence that TikTok poses a threat to the national security of the United States," spokesman for Chinese diplomacy Wang Wenbin told reporters on Wednesday. "The United States should stop spreading false information about data security issues, stop unwarranted attacks [against TikTok], and provide an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory business environment" for foreign companies, the door added. -word.
