New Zealand lawmakers and other workers inside the nation\u2019s Parliament will be banned from having the TikTok app on their government phones.
\nAccording to international media reports, the ban, which takes effect at the end of the month, follows similar moves in many other countries.
\nHowever, New Zealand\u2019s ban will apply only to about 500 people in the parliamentary complex, not to all government workers like bans in the U.S. and Britain. Other New Zealand agencies could decide later to impose their own bans.
\nGlobal concern about the app comes after warnings by the FBI and other agencies that TikTok\u2019s Chinese parent company ByteDance could share TikTok user data \u2014 such as browsing history, location and biometric identifiers \u2014 with China\u2019s authoritarian government.
\nNew Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins said he didn\u2019t have TikTok on his phone.
\nThe New Zealand move came on the advice of government cybersecurity experts, said Parliamentary Service Chief Executive Rafael Gonzalez-Montero.
\nHe said the app would be removed from all devices with access to the parliamentary network, although officials could make special arrangements for anybody who needed TikTok to perform their democratic duties.
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