He New York City Government, USA, forbade the use of the Chinese social network TikTok on city-owned devices with immediate effectbeing prohibited the installation of this app since “represents a security threat to the city’s technical networks”.
It is not the first time that the platform owned by bytedance suffers locks for use in government devices in USA. own Biden Administration already imposed in February of this year that the federal agencies They had to ensure that their workers did not have TikTok installed on any government device.
Now the city of NY join this initiative prohibiting the use and installation of TikTok in the city devices with effect immediateas revealed by The Verge, who had access to a statement from the New York City Hall.
In this sense, the directive issued on Wednesday details that, after a review of the Cyber Command from the city of NYit was concluded that TikTok “represents a security threat to the city’s technical networks”. It was also detailed that this Command “regularly explores and promotes proactive measures to keep New Yorkers’ data safe“.
Therefore, it was decreed that the employees of the city of NY they will not be able to download or use the application, nor will they be able to access the website of TikTokfrom devices owned by the city.
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Also, according to statements by a spokesperson for the New York City Hallincluded in said communication, this decision intends to ensure the safety of New York citizens and the protection of their data. “Although the social networks are great for connecting New Yorkers with each other and with the citywe must ensure that we always use these platforms in a manner safe“, has qualified the spokesman.
Tiktok: distrust in its privacy policy
The distrust towards the use of the social network TikTok is due to his Privacy Policyin which the employees of the Chinese company have access to user dataalthough it is unclear what data these employees have access to and which employees are involved.
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In this context, US officials repeatedly expressed their concern that the chinese government can press bytedance to deliver the information collected from users with the aim of using it with intelligence or disinformation purposesas reported by CNN.
USA: the state of Montana joined the ban on the app
So much so that some states of USA have already banned the use of TikTok. It is the case of Mountainwhich last May banned the application “to protect the personal and private data of Montanans from the Chinese Communist Party”.
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European Union
Also, this concern for lack of data privacy in the social network also occurs in other regions such as countries of the European Union, United Kingdom and Canada.
In the case the European Unioninstitutions like the European Comission and the European Council They also decided to ban the use of TikTok in the corporate cell phones for your employees and in the personal devices have access to services such as email.
Source: Ambito
