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New Zealand bans TikTok from the parliamentary network?
The short video-based social network, TikTok, has come across worst of its days in western countries, as first Biden administration threatened the app ban in US and now the latest, New Zealand slaps a ban on it.
New Zealand's concerns over cybersecurity relating to TikTok have seen the app kicked off of all devices connected to the company's parliamentary network.
This comes just a day after the U.K. also confirmed that TikTok was banned from all government devices. It's also a day after TikTok confirmed that the United States had threatened to kick the app out of the country if it continues its Chinese ownership.
Reuters reported, that TikTok is no longer welcome on New Zealand's parliamentary network.
"Parliamentary Service Chief Executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero said in an email to Reuters that the decision was taken after advice from cybersecurity experts and discussions within government and with other countries," the report says. "Based on this information, the Service has determined that the risks are not acceptable in the current New Zealand Parliamentary environment,” Gonzalez-Montero said.
However, just like in the U.K., special arrangements are to be made for people who have to access TikTok for work - likely those who control the government's TikTok accounts, for example.
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