Information security | The United States threatens to boycott Tiktok, the British government bans its use on work phones

of the United States the administration is threatening to ban video app Tiktok from its country if it remains Chinese-owned.

The video application is currently owned by the Chinese company Bytedance, which has previously been criticized by the US administration for data fishing and security risks.

Economic magazine of the Wall Street Journal According to (WSJ), the United States is now pressuring China to sell its share of ownership of Tiktok, or else the use of the application may be banned throughout the country.

The United States has already banned the use of Tiktok on the work phones of members and employees of its House of Representatives.

Britain’s public broadcasting company BBC, Tiktok confirms that it is aware of the situation. According to Tiktok’s management, the acquisitions would not change the movement of users’ data and access to it.

The United States is concerned that the information will end up in the hands of the Chinese government. According to the WSJ, the US Committee on Foreign Investment unanimously recommends that China divest Tiktok.

The Tiktok boycott was already threatened by the president Donald Trump’s during 2020. Tiktok has said that it is working to hand over the information of US users to the United States.

CEO of Tiktok Shou Zi Chew is coming to the US Congress to speak on the subject next week.

Britain announced on Thursday a ban on Tiktok on the work phones of government employees, Reuters reports, among other things.

Britain’s National Cyber ​​Security Center has investigated the matter.

The use of Tiktok has already been banned on the work phones of officials of the United States, Canada and the EU Commission. In Denmark, the parliament, i.e. the Danish People’s Assembly, has asked its members to remove Tiktok from their devices “due to the risk of espionage”.