As reported by Euractiv:

“The EU government’s IT service has requested all Fee staff to uninstall TikTok from their company units, in addition to the private units utilizing company apps, citing information safety considerations.”

It’s the primary huge transfer in opposition to TikTok in Europe, and follows related warnings and actions taken in US states, the place many regional governments have banned the app on official units.

TikTok can also be underneath investigation by the White Home which may result in a doable nationwide ban, with the FBI and the FCC each recommending the app be faraway from US app shops attributable to considerations that the corporate may very well be sharing info on US residents with the Chinese language Authorities.

TikTok has repeatedly denied that it has, or will share info with the CCP, however an investigation late final 12 months did uncover employees from TikTok’s mother or father firm ByteDance utilizing TikTok info to trace contacts of US journalists.  

Amid ongoing tensions with China, TikTok may very well be caught within the center, and it appears inevitable that, at some stage, the US Authorities might want to make a name on the app, a technique or one other, that might see it banned or restricted within the US.

Including Europe into the combination expands the considerations, and it logically follows that if the US bans TikTok, many different western nations can even observe go well with, in keeping with safety considerations.

TikTok’s nonetheless engaged on a deal to separate US consumer information from China, and if I needed to wager, that does seem to be that would be the extra probably final result, given the billions in potential income on the road. If the US strikes to ban the app, ByteDance may look to promote TikTok to a US proprietor, because it did when former President Donald Trump sought to ban the app in 2020.

Will that appease EU considerations too? We’ll have to attend and see, however it does seem to be TikTok’s day of reckoning is coming, someday quickly.