TikTok is in the dock. The ban haunts him around the world

Many countries of the world have recently imposed a ban on the Chinese application "TikTok", most notably the United States, which has previously banned the application on government phones, as did Britain, Canada, Belgium, Denmark, New Zealand and a number of European Union countries, and the latest ban was the announcement of the Swedish army to prevent its members from downloading the application on work devices due to security concerns and accusations of collecting user data.

In 2020, India imposed a ban on TikTok and dozens of other Chinese applications, including the messaging application WeChat, due to privacy and security concerns, and in 2021 the Pakistan Telecommunications Regulatory Authority announced a ban on the application due to some immoral content on it, and last April, the authorities in Afghanistan decided to ban the application, and then in December, Taiwan imposed a ban on downloading the application with public sector devices and the FBI said that the application poses a risk to national security.

Last week, the Norwegian parliament banned downloading the app on devices that have access to the parliament system, and France banned public sector employees from downloading "entertainment apps" on work phones, including TikTok.

The European Commission and the European Parliament told officials they could not use TikTok on work devices due to concerns about the app's links to the Chinese government.

While the company that owns the application maintains that the Chinese government does not control its data and does not have access to it, the company acknowledged last November that some employees in China have access to the data of European users, while the Chinese Foreign Ministry recently confirmed that it did not ask the company to hand over the data collected abroad.

US House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy said yesterday that lawmakers would move forward with legislation to address national security concerns about TikTok, saying the Chinese government was looking at the data of users of the TikTok short video app.

Calls are growing in the United States to ban TikTok, owned by China-based ByteDance, through the passage of a bipartisan bill to give President Joe Biden the administrative legal authority to request a complete ban, after the app was banned from downloading on U.S. government-owned devices.