“It is difficult to say whether that fear is well-founded. TikTok is owned by Chinese technology company ByteDance and has come under fire since the company admitted that certain employees had access to users’ data in the United States and Europe. The United States government made a similar decision, and in the Netherlands a majority of the Tweede Kamer also wants a ban on TikTok on government officials’ work phones. The decision applies to over 30,000 working for executive body. “The European Commission is an EU institution and we are very focused on the security of our data,” said Breton. “We are doing what we have to do in the current context,” European Commissioner Thierry Breton said when he confirmed the decision.
The EU executive body has concerns about the Chinese app’s security. The European Commission decided on Thursday that civil servants working for them may no longer have the app installed on their work devices for fear of espionage. Companies must consider whether they will allow their employees to put social media app TikTok on their work phone, said Daan Keuper, researcher at cybersecurity company Computest.
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