The EU bans TikTok for its employees, as Washington had done

Now TikTok is suffering on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Commission has in fact prohibited the use and download of the application on the devices of its employees (even personal ones, if applications attributable to work in the European institutions are loaded). The decision comes about two months after the same app was banned for US federal government employees, and “aims to protect the Commission from cybersecurity threats and from actions that could be exploited for cyberattacks against the corporate environment”. The Commission preferred not to specify what particular threat prompted the ban, but the specter haunting Europe and the United States is now known: the suspicious link between ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, and the Beijing government. And then the doubts about the integrity of user data, which could have been passed under the table to the Chinese government, not to mention the malign influence that the regime could have on the mythological TikTok algorithm, whose selection criteria are as mysterious as they can be influenced by the Chinese political agenda.