Ministers plan to ban TikTok from government devices trends now
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Ministers are planning to ban TikTok from Government devices after the intelligence services raised fears that the Chinese-owned platform could be used by hostile foreign powers for spying purposes.
Government sources say experts at GCHQ’s National Cyber Security Centre ‘identified risks around the safety of sensitive information’.
It comes as a major review of defence, security and foreign policy – expected to be announced tomorrow – is understood to be planning to describe the threat posed by China as the UK’s primary security concern.
Security experts have grown increasingly concerned about the data-mining algorithms used by TikTok, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance.
Under the British plans, Government employees will be allowed to keep the video-sharing app on their personal phones, but ‘discouraged’ from doing so. The move comes after similar bans were introduced by
