foreign affairs has also announced a ban on tiktok on work devices foreign minister edgars rinkevics tweeted that he deleted his tiktok account and that the app is also prohibited from using this app in smart devices where ministry emails are installednetherlandsthe dutch central government banned apps including tiktok from employee work phones citing data security concerns a government statement did not name tiktok specifically but said that civil servants are discouraged from having apps from countries with an offensive cyber program against the netherlands andor dutch interests installed and used on their mobile work devicesnew zealandnew zealand too has banned employees at the nations parliament from having the tiktok app on their work phones following advice from government cybersecurity experts the app has been removed from all devices with access to the parliamentary networknorwaythe norwegian parliament banned tiktok on work devices after the countrys justice ministry warned the app shouldnt be installed on phones issued to government employees the countrys capital oslo and second largest city bergen also urged municipal employees to remove tiktok from their work phonestaiwanin december 2022 taiwan imposed a public sector ban on tiktok after the fbi warned that tiktok posed a national security risk government devices including mobile phones tablets and desktop computers are not allowed to use chinesemade software which include apps like tiktok its chinese equivalent douyin or xiaohongshu a chinese lifestyle content appunited kingdom ukin march the uk government banned tiktok from mobile phones used by government ministers and civil servants officials said that the ban was a precautionary move on security grounds and doesnt apply to personal devices the british parliament followed up by banning tiktok from all official devices and the wider parliamentary network united states usthe us has banned tiktok from federal government devices and systems over data security concerns the ban applies only to government devices so far however some us lawmakers are advocating an outright ban