TikTok is surprised by the veto of the European Commission, which on Thursday, without prior notice, prohibited its employees from installing the app, which belongs to the Chinese company ByteDance, on their official mobile phones before March 15 for “security” reasons. ”, in a movement like the one that the United States Congress has already made with its workers.
Caroline Greer, TikTok’s director of public policy and government relations, lamented this lack of communication yesterday to Reuters. “We really are operating under a cloud. And lack of transparency and procedural guarantees. Frankly, one would expect some kind of compromise on this matter,” the board said.
Greer noted that TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, who met EU Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton and other commissioners in Brussels last January, was “worried and a bit puzzled.” “He’s always been very available, you know, responding to the Commission… We’ve reached out to him to meet in whatever way they want.”
In a statement, TikToK considered “that this suspension is wrong and based on misconceptions.” “We are surprised that the Commission has not contacted us directly and offered us no explanation: we have requested a meeting to explain how we protect the data of the 125 million people in the EU who have TikTok every month.
