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TikTok expected to be banned from UK landlines | Politics news
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The UK government is expected to announce it will ban TikTok on its work phones later, Sky News reports.
Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden will make a statement to Parliament this afternoon on the “security of government devices”, where he is expected to confirm the ban.
A Chinese-owned video-sharing app has come under increasing scrutiny data security and privacywith concerns that it could be used to promote pro-Beijing views or collect user data.
EU Commission more than half of the US states and Congress have already imposed bans due to concerns about possible cyberattacks.
Earlier this week, Security Minister Tom Tugendhat told Sky News he had asked the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) to investigate
