The Polish Council for Digitization classified the latest meeting, which discussed the following issues: on the recommendation to ban the use of TikTok for politicians and officials. Janusz Cieszynski notes that it is “impossible not to agree” with the Council’s recommendation.
On Friday, media outlets reported that the Prime Minister’s Office’s Digitization Council was preparing to publish a position recommending that China’s TikTok app be removed from the official devices of MPs and civil servants.
A meeting of the Digitalization Council took place on Monday afternoon. Although the course of the meeting was kept secret, it is unofficially known that the recommendation to ban TikTok was voted in favor.
TikTok ban in Poland - Digitization Council recommendation for business devices
The 19-member Digitization Council (RdC) is an advisory body made up of experts that recommends specific actions to the Minister of Digitization, who is currently Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki. On Monday, the last meeting of the team in the current line-up took place, but the course of the event was kept secret.
However, anecdotal information shows that the meeting voted “virtually unanimously” and passed a resolution that included a recommendation to remove and ban installation of the TikTok app. This applies to office equipment of officials and government employees, as well as private devices, if they have business applications.
Another part of the project, which was supposed to recommend the liquidation of the so-called. high-risk providers from the Polish 5G network (Huawei and ZTE were among the listed companies), but it was postponed.
Janusz Cieszynski on the recommendation to ban TikTok
Janusz Cieszynski, State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office in charge of digitization, also cited the information. In an official position posted on Twitter, the politician stressed that the resolution “almost does not change anything about the situation with TikTok in Poland”, since it is only a recommendation from the RdC, and not a new law.
At the same time, Tseshinsky argues that the position of the Council “one cannot but agree”, since every government agency should have an information security policy that prescribes, among other things, the separation of confidential business data from personal files.
“Tik Tok is, according to the creators, an entertainment application, it is difficult to identify situations in which installing the application on a work phone complies with the provisions of the security policy,” Tseshinsky said on Twitter.
Source: Wprost
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