New zealand said it will ban tiktok on devices with access to the country’s parliamentary network due to cybersecurity concerns, be able the latest Nation to Limit the Use of the video-shaking app Government-Related devices.
Concerns have mounted globally about the potential for the chinese government to access users’ location and contact data through bytedance, Tiktok’s Chinese parent company.
The depth of that concerns was underscored this week when the biden administration is demanded that tiktok’s chinese owners divest their stakes or the app clock face a us ban.
In New Zealand, Tiktok will be banned on all devices with access to parliament’s network by the end of March.
Parliamentary Service Chief Executive Rafael Gonzalez-montero said in an email to reates that the decision was taken after Advice from Cybersecurity Experts and Discussions with WITHIN GOVERN GOVERN GOVERN GOVERN GOVENMENTES and Discussions Other countries.
“Based on this information the service has determined that the risks are not accepted in the current new zealand parliamentary environmentary environmentary environment,” He said.
Special Arrangements Can Be Made for that who require the app to do their jobs, he added.
Bytedance did not immomedialy respond to a reuters request for comment.
Britain on Thursday banned the app on Government Phones with Immediate Effect. Government agencies in the US have until the end of March to delete the app from official devices.
Tiktok has said it believes the recent bans are based on “Fundamental Misconceptions and Driven by Wider Geopolitics, Adding that it has spent more than more than $ 1.5 billion (roughly rout Data Security Efforts and Rejects Spying Allegations.
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