The UK on Thursday became the latest to ban the Chinese social media app TikTok on government devices, following similar moves by Belgium, the EU, Canada, and the United States.
It also comes after TikTok said it’s facing a total ban in the United States unless the company’s Beijing-based parent ByteDance sells its stake.
Announcing the ban in parliament, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Oliver Dowden said the decision is based on an official review, which concluded that “it is clear that there could be a risk around how sensitive government data is accessed and used by certain platforms.”…