The European Parliament is expected to ask its staff to remove the Chinese app. tik tak from his professional phones for security reasons, he said today in Reuters EU official This is the latest EU institution to follow this directive.

The ban will also apply to private devices that have parliamentary email installed, as well as other devices with internet access.

It is noted that the European Commission and the Council of the EU banned last weektik tak from regular phones, for security purposes.

Specifically, Commission officials should remove the video-sharing app “as soon as possible” and by March 15. “Starting March 15, devices with the app installed will be considered incompatible with the corporate environment,” reads an email sent to employees, highlighting that the decision was made to protect the Commission’s data.

Also yesterday, Ottawa announced the blocking of the Chinese application. tik tak from all official Canadian government devices on the grounds that it poses a threat to communications privacy and national security.

At the same time, governments in the West are increasingly concerned that Chinese tech companies are helping the Chinese government and intelligence agencies collect vast amounts of data from around the world.

The US in December banned the app from all federal government devices over fears of possible spying from China, where its parent company is based. tik tak, ByteDance.

TikTok says, for its part, that it is “disappointed” with the decision, which a spokesman for the Chinese company complains was made “without mentioning the specific security issues associated with TikTok” and “without prior notice (ps Canadian government) with the company to discuss any problem.”

Source: Reuters.