UPI By Darryl Coote
March 17 (UPI) —Â New Zealand banned TikTok from all devices with parliamentary access, including lawmakers’ phones, on Friday, making it the latest democratic nation to restrict use of the wildly popular Chinese-owned smartphone application.
With more than 1 billion monthly users, the short-form video-hosting service TikTok is among the most popular social media platforms, but it has raised concerns among Western nations over its potential links to the Chinese Communist Party.
Owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, TikTok has sparked fears over the potential leak of user data to the authoritarian Chinese government that have only increased after the United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon last month while allegedly it’s part of the Asian nation’s wide-ranging espionage campaign.
Republicans in the United States have viewed TikTok suspiciously for years and have moved on their own at the state-level to restrict its access, but the issue has grown more bipartisan and international since the early February balloon shootdown.
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