Federal government employees are temporarily prohibited from using TikTok on professional devices. The Council of Ministers reached an agreement on this on Friday.
Staff must remove the app by March 31 at the latest. The ban will be in effect for six months and will then be evaluated. The government also recommends not installing the app on personal devices with access to the government’s internal systems and networks.
TikTok, owned by Chinese company ByteDance, has come under fire since the tech company admitted that certain employees had access to US and European users’ data. More and more governments and parliaments are banning TikTok on their employees’ work phones and other business devices for fear of data theft and espionage. The Flemish and Walloon governments have also announced a ban.
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