Similar to the European authorities, Belgian civil servants will no longer have the right to use TikTok. At least on their professional devices. The Flat Country National Security Council banned the Chinese app on Friday morning, the newspaper said. Free Belgium.
The council meeting focused on examining a report from the Belgian Cybersecurity Center (CCB) as well as the conclusions of State Security on the use of TikTok in administrations. It shows that ministers, cabinets and civil servants.
A “logical and necessary” ban
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Mobility, Georges Gilkinet, confirmed on Twitter the decision that he considers “logical and necessary”. He also jokingly indicates there that he will wait “to try to compete with the overflowing creativity” on TikTok of his colleague Petra de Sutter, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Civil Service, Public Enterprises, Telecommunications and Posts.
In the European Union, the Commission, the Parliament and the Council of Europe have taken a similar decision. Employees of the three big EU institutions will have to remove TikTok from their professional phones, but also from their personal phones if they use them to carry out certain tasks related to their work, before March 20.
For several months now, the social network has been the subject of suspicions of espionage by Beijing. In the United States, a bill proposes to prohibit the use of TikTok throughout the territory. US officials are already being forced to remove the app from their phones.
Source: BFM TV
