MADRID, March 23 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The UK Parliament has agreed to ban the Chinese app TikTok on all official devices connected to the House of Commons and the House of Lords, in line with a decision adopted last week by the UK government.
The social network will be “blocked” on lawmakers’ devices, according to a spokesman for the agency stressing that “cybersecurity is a priority”, without elaborating further on the specific reasons for this measure, reported Sky News.
In this way, legislators who want to access TikTok must do so from personal devices that are not connected to the DPR’s internet network.
Fears have been running high in the West over the potential use of TikTok as a Trojan horse to promote pro-China propaganda or collect user data, but Beijing denounces that behind this cascade of vetoes are political intentions without any justification. technology.
The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Rishi Sunak, has warned that he will examine the steps taken by “allied” governments and ultimately his government to follow the lines of other countries such as the United States, Canada or India. In the case of the UK, it happens that several ministries, such as Defence, have official accounts on TikTok.
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