The state body responsible for advising the Irish government on cyber security recommended on Friday that employees of government departments and state agencies not use Chinese-owned video apps. TIC Toc on official devices.
Several western countries, including the UK, the US and other EU member states, have banned TikTok over security concerns. The EU’s two biggest policymaking institutions also banned the app last month.
Tiktok, which is owned by a Chinese company bytedanceis under scrutiny from governments and regulators as the government of China may be using its app to harvest users’ data or further its own interests.
The head of Ireland’s National Cyber Security Center said that TikTok is “at the very high end, if not the highest end in terms of the amount of user data it collects” and that it poses a risk given the nature of Chinese intelligence-gathering legislation. Born ,
NCSC director Richard Brown told national broadcaster RTE: “The issue here is not what we know is happening. The issue here is what we know is happening, which we cannot dismiss.”
“Once a risk exists in such a context, it puts us in a position where the logical argument is that we take a sensible risk-based approach and ensure that government data is not compromised in this way.” can be done.”
The NCSC said there is no reason why politicians cannot use the app on their personal devices and that it can be used on official devices in exceptional cases where there is a business need, such as by a press office.
TikTok runs many of its European operations from Dublin, which include data privacy and security. It announced last month that it would open a second data center in Ireland and reduce the transfer of data outside Ireland. European Union,
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