TikTok, Twitter and Candy Crush banned from the work phones of French civil servants

After the White House, the European Commission, the Canadian and British governments, it is the turn of the French government to ban this Friday the installation and use of the Chinese social network TikTok on the professional phones of civil servants. of state. This concerns 2.5 million people. These apps have “Cybersecurity risks and agent data protection public and administrative”estimates the entourage of the Minister of Public Service Stanislas Guerini.

TikTok, Candy Crush, Netflix and Twitter

Among the applications now banned is “the triptych gaming apps like Candy Crush, streaming apps like Netflix and recreational apps like TikTok”, explains the entourage of Stanislas Guerini, before adding that Twitter is also blacklisted. But the government has not yet drawn up a uniform list of prohibited applications, the measure is taken by default. (…)

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