Canada is next in line to ban the Chinese app Tiktok for government employees for security reasons. In the United States, employees of federal agencies must have deleted the app within a month, the White House announced.
Canada announced on Monday that Tiktok is being banned from all work phones of government employees, as the app “poses an unacceptable risk to privacy and security”.
The app will be removed from phones on Tuesday and the federal government will block the ability to download it.
While the risks of using the app are obvious, there is no evidence that government information has been compromised, according to Canadian authorities.
On Monday, the White House announced that US government employees have 30 days to delete the app. Last year, the law was passed banning the app from devices used by federal government employees, and some politicians are trying to get the app banned across the US.
Last week, the European Commission also announced that the app is banned from employees and that it must be deleted by March 15 at the latest.
Even in Sweden, staff at the government office have been asked to delete Tiktok.