Army, U.S., fends off 'cyber threat' TikTok of overheidstelefoons

in The U.s. army, the military is allowed to use the popular videoapp TikTok to install on the phone of the government. That is reported by the Military.com.

A spokesman for the army, called TikTok, "a cyber threat". Rather, it is the app of the army have been deployed to a younger audience, soldiers, recruiting, reports Military.com.

as of mid-december, the military, the new rules have been notified. Previously, it was announced that the staff of the U.s. department of the navy TikTok are not allowed to use it on the overheidstoestellen.

in the Previous month, as did a spokesman for the Pentagon to Reuters, namely that the measure is part of a strategy to combat existing and emerging threats". It is not known whether or not the united states air force and the navy, TikTok will also be captivated to do.

Concerns about Chinese espionage < / p> TikTok is a videoapp that, especially among young people, is enormously popular. The app can be used to make lip-synching and the cute, short videos to share with you.

In the U.S. exist to ensure that, to the Chinese, the TikTok developer ByteDance of the data of the user passes to the Chinese government. In order to remove the fear, to move ByteDance the activities of the TikTok to the Us servers as well.

now, In a transparency report, which ByteDance Tuesday, but, claims the company, in the first half of 2019 no verwijderverzoeken to have been made in China. Countries can apply for example, if the messages are in the local law. The netherlands was also no requests for TikTok.