This morning, the European Parliament banned the Chinese short-video-sharing app TikTok from staff phones for security reasons. Yesterday, Canadian authorities banned the TikTok app from government-issued devices, following a White House announcement that US government agencies have 30 days to delete TikTok from federal devices and systems. Host Marco Werman speaks with Moritz Körner, German Member of the European Parliament in Brussels, about the recent government directives and how citizens’ data privacy is increasingly seen as a national security threat by Western governments.
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