The Polish Digital Council has recommended that the government impose a strict ban on the use of TikTok. The Chinese application will disappear from government devices and smartphones throughout the state administration. And this is not all the restrictions.
According to an internal report seen by Polityka Insight, the Polish Digitization Council should prepare to publish a position in which it recommends that the TikTok app be excluded from Polish state devices. The ban is expected to be broad enough. How will it look like?
TikTok ban in Poland - politicians, officials, public administration
“The council expresses its concern about the security of data stored on devices running TikTok,” the statement reads in part. The concern also concerns the extensive collection of information that could potentially support Chinese authorities or serve local intelligence.
Therefore, the Prime Minister’s Office think tank is proposing a project to remove TikTok from official government devices - smartphones, tablets and PCs. We are talking about the equipment of members and employees of the Seimas, the Senate and the government, but the list does not end there.
The ban will also affect other official government positions, including, most likely, officials. Moreover, the Digitization Council recommends that the application be removed not only from business devices, but also from personal phones and tablets of government officials.
The rule applies if the same device also has corporate software used for public functions. According to the Council, TikTok should be viewed as a “high-risk vendor”, as China’s Huawei has previously been.
The world bans TikTok
As we wrote in Wprost.pl, US government agencies were given until the last days of March to clear all federal devices from TikTok. The removal of the app, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, continues in other countries.
Similar bans have now been independently established in Canada, the European Commission, Taiwan and the UK.
Among other things, the Belgian intelligence services highlighted the possible threats previously noted by the Americans. TikTok collects vast amounts of information about users, often without their knowledge or informed consent. ByteDance is committed to working with Chinese intelligence.
Source: Wprost
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