European Commission employees will have to remove the TikTok app from their phones for security reasons, the European Union's executive body said Thursday.
The Commission said in a statement that all its employees will have to comply by March 15.
The new rule will apply to work phones, but also employees' personal phones if they have an EU app on it, said Sonya Gospodinova, a spokesperson at the executive body. TikTok in a statement called the Commission's decision "misguided and based on fundamental misconceptions."from officials in the U.S. and Europe over fears that user data could fall into the possession of the Chinese government.
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