The Dutch Ministry of the Interior has announced that it will follow the steps of other European countries, and will proceed to banning Dutch civil servants from installing the Chinese social media platform TikTok, on their business phones. The decision was made, as the China is considered one of the “countries with an aggressive cyber program aimed at the Netherlands or Dutch interests’.
The Dutch intelligence agency AIVD classified her China, Russia, Iran and North Korea in countries that have such malicious cyber program, which raises the risk espionage.
This month, and the Belgium has banned TikTokwhich is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, from the phones and computers of federal government employees.
The head of the company says that it is at a “crucial point”
TikTok CEO, Show Zi Chiustated that the company is at a defining momentas more and more US lawmakers seek to ban the app, on grounds national security.
Chiu, who will speak before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday, said that “some politicians have started talking about banning TikTok. Now this can take TikTok away from 150 million of you,” he said. Chiu also said that 5 million US businesses use TikTok to reach their customers.
The critics of TikTok fear that the data of its American users could end up in the hands of the Chinese government through the platform. TikTok denies any allegations of spying.
Research in Italy as well
At the same time, Italian authority competition announced the initiation of an investigation against him TikToksuspected of not applying its own screening rules for “dangerous content that prompts the suicidehim self-harm and eating disorders».
As it said in a statement, the investigation by the Italian competition authority targets the Irish company TikTok Technology Limited, which is responsible for relations with European consumers, as well as the English and Italian company. The Italian headquarters of TikTok was today the subject of an investigation by this authority with the assistance of the financial police.
The start of the research came after the presence on the platform “of many videos of young people engaging in self-injurious behaviours“, in relation to the challenge called “french scar”, which went viral in Italy on the network that is particularly popular among minors. The Italian authority accuses TikTok of not implementing adequate content monitoring systems, “mainly in the presence of particularly vulnerable users such as minors”.
Source: News Beast
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