The Commission has asked its employees to remove the application from their electronic equipment for security reasons, according to a source close to the European institution.
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The European Commission prohibits its employees from using the Chinese application TikTok, for security reasons, learned franceinfo Thursday, February 23, from a source close to the European institution, confirming information from Politico.
According to our information, the Commission has asked its employees to remove the application of the Chinese group ByteDance from their electronic equipment. This ban on TikTok applies to business phones, but also to personal phones with work applications related to the Commission.
In a press release published last Friday, TikTok nevertheless claimed to want “to secure” And “protect” the data of its users in Europe. For this, the Chinese social network promised to “restrict its employees’ access to European user data”. TikTok is also planning the opening in Dublin of a “European Center for Transparency and Accountability”.
TikTok, which now has 150 million monthly active users in Europe (out of 32 countries), must comply with the European Digital Services Act (DSA) and Digital Markets Act (DMA), which will come into force from mid-2023. These European regulations aim to regulate the internet and social networks. In the United States, a law passed in December banned the use of the app in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as on public servants’ devices
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