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After the United States, the United Kingdom or even the Parliament and the European Commission, the French government in turn places the use of TikTok in its sights because of cybersecurity risks for state officials. But this social network is not the only one to be targeted.
This is what the phones of state officials will look like on Saturday the 25th March. TikTok but also Candy game Crush or even Netflix will now be banned on the professional smartphones of senior police officers. France is attacking these car appsaccording to the authorities, they represent a danger. “We know that there are attacks on public administrations that have been more and more frequent in recent years and this is a subject that all European countries are facing”underlined Stanislas GueriniMinister of Transformation and the Civil Service of France.
Applications that lead to “information leakage”
Authorities fear that stolen information be used for blackmail purposes. In recent years, some applications such as Twitter and Facebook have suffered millions of data leaks. According to Gérôme Billoiscybersecurity expert, the risks are significant. “THE risk when you have the application on the phone is that it is transformed into a spy tool (…) and get out of the way she usually is to see who you’ve called, who your contacts are, what emails you’ve received or what photos you have. It leads to a leak of information“, he deciphers.
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