{"id":9313,"date":"2023-03-16T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T12:37:35","slug":"uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China<\/p>\n<p>Britain is to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from ministers\u2019 and civil servants\u2019 mobile phones, bringing the UK in line with the US and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/feb\/23\/european-commission-bans-staff-from-using-tiktok-on-work-devices\">the European Commission<\/a> and reflecting deteriorating relations with Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>The decision marks a sharp U-turn from the UK\u2019s previous position and came a few hours after TikTok said its owner, ByteDance, had been told by Washington to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/15\/us-joe-biden-tiktok-ban-chinese-owners-divest\">sell the app or face a possible ban<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/16\/uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7dd225b0a37ff8a19372928c38728dc2d3f49dc6\/0_502_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1dd5793808e1c4321ef7ec0d332f6ed8\" title=\"UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones\" \/>Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China<br \/>\nBritain is to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from ministers\u2019 and civil servants\u2019 mobile phones, bringing the UK in line with the US and the European Commission and reflecting deteriorating relations with Beijing.<br \/>\nThe decision marks a sharp U-turn from the UK\u2019s previous position and came a few hours after TikTok said its owner, ByteDance, had been told by Washington to sell the app or face a possible ban in the country. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China Britain is to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from ministers\u2019 and civil servants\u2019 mobile phones, bringing the UK in line with the US and the European Commission and reflecting deteriorating relations with Beijing. The decision marks a sharp U-turn &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/16\/uk-bans-tiktok-from-government-mobile-phones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9314,"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\/9313"}],"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=9313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}