{"id":9275,"date":"2023-03-13T17:37:26","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/tiktok-would-be-disappointed-if-uk-banned-app-on-official-devices\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T17:37:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T16:37:26","slug":"tiktok-would-be-disappointed-if-uk-banned-app-on-official-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/tiktok-would-be-disappointed-if-uk-banned-app-on-official-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok would be \u2018disappointed\u2019 if UK banned app on official devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firm says moves in west to block video app on government phones have been \u2018based on misplaced fears\u2019<\/p>\n<p>TikTok has said it would be \u201cdisappointed\u201d if it was banned from UK government devices, after it was reported that ministers were due to follow the example of the US, Canada and the European Commission in blocking the social video app.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok said moves to strip it from government-issued phones were based on \u201cmisplaced fears\u201d. The app is under pressure over its ownership by Beijing-based ByteDance, with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic warning that the Chinese state could access its data or manipulate what people view on the app via its recommendation algorithm.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/13\/tiktok-would-be-disappointed-if-uk-banned-app-on-official-devices\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/54f73f20e97dfd1721b4f9e96e46dc69b6bce2fa\/0_232_6960_4176\/master\/6960.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a641229e89eebe44ba6f7c4b38a608c0\" title=\"TikTok would be \u2018disappointed\u2019 if UK banned app on official devices\" \/>Firm says moves in west to block video app on government phones have been \u2018based on misplaced fears\u2019<br \/>\nTikTok has said it would be \u201cdisappointed\u201d if it was banned from UK government devices, after it was reported that ministers were due to follow the example of the US, Canada and the European Commission in blocking the social video app.<br \/>\nTikTok said moves to strip it from government-issued phones were based on \u201cmisplaced fears\u201d. The app is under pressure over its ownership by Beijing-based ByteDance, with politicians on both sides of the Atlantic warning that the Chinese state could access its data or manipulate what people view on the app via its recommendation algorithm. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firm says moves in west to block video app on government phones have been \u2018based on misplaced fears\u2019 TikTok has said it would be \u201cdisappointed\u201d if it was banned from UK government devices, after it was reported that ministers were due to follow the example of the US, Canada and the European Commission in blocking &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/13\/tiktok-would-be-disappointed-if-uk-banned-app-on-official-devices\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TikTok would be \u2018disappointed\u2019 if UK banned app on official devices<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}