UK security minister Tom Tugendhat asks NCSC to investigate TikTok’s security

While governments all over the world started banning TikTok from their work phones, UK security minister Tom Tugendhat has asked the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to investigate the app’s security.

The Chinese-owned video-sharing app, TikTok is coming under closer scrutiny from the US and EU over security and data privacy due to worries that it can be used to spread pro-Beijing ideologies or collect user data.

More than half of the US states, the EU Commission, and Congress have already imposed TikTok ban due to worries about potential cyberattacks.


A prohibition has previously been proposed by the EU Commission, more than half of the US states, and Congress due to worries about potential cyberattacks.

By stating that the UK will "look at what our partners are doing," Prime Minister Rishi Sunak implied that the UK may follow suit.



Meanwhile, the UK parliament's own account was terminated last year after lawmakers voiced worries about the company's connections to China. But, TikTok has responded, branding official prohibitions as "misguided and based on basic fallacies".

Confirming his call for a probe into the app, Mr Tugendhat told Sky News it was "absolutely necessary" to maintain the UK's "diplomatic processes free and safe".

The Tory MP claimed he didn't have the app "for various reasons, the majority of which you can probably imagine," but he didn't completely rule out banning it from government-issued phones and instead said he preferred to wait for the NCSC's findings before making any comments.

The US government has made different decisions about its government phones, while the Indian government has banned TikTok and many other applications. Different businesses and nations have adopted various strategies.

FAQs:

1. What is the concept of TikTok?
   On the social networking site TikTok, members may create, share, and discover short films.
2. When was TikTok launched?
   September 2016