The spokesperson for the Community Executive has avoided giving details on whether there has been a specific attack that led to the ban. TikTok, for its part, has considered that this suspension is “wrong and based on fundamental misconceptions”.
The European Commission and the European Council on Thursday banned their employees from installing the Chinese application TikTok on their official mobile phones. “security”just as the US Congress has done with its workers.
Community Executive spokesperson Sonya Gospodinova has said that the decision has been “carefully analysed” and adopted to “protect the European Commission from cybersecurity threats and against actions that could be exploited against carrying out attacks,” although he has avoided giving details about whether there was a specific attack that motivated the ban.
However, Brussels will “constantly” review the measure in the future it could be “reversible”.noted Gospodinova.
TikTok, for its part, has considered that this suspension is ” wrong and is based on fundamental misconceptions,” said a company spokesperson.
“Us surprise that the Commission has not contacted us directly and given us no explanation: we have requested a meeting to put things right, about how we protect the data of the 125 million people across the EU who use TikTok every month visits,” the spokesman added.
In addition to TikTok, the Commission has already banned the video calling application Zoombut it does allow others like it, such as Skype for Business or Webex.
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