EU authorities allow TikTok to be banned

EU authorities may ban TikTok. According to Politico, the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, stated this during the election debate.

“It's not impossible. <...> We know exactly the danger of TikTok,” she said, recalling that in February 2023, the European Commission banned its employees from using TikTok on company smartphones.

Earlier, The Guardian newspaper wrote that EU authorities want to ban the TikTok Lite application. European officials argued that it could be "as addictive as cigarettes" due to the app offering its users financial rewards for watching videos and leaving reactions.

On April 24, US President Joe Biden signed a bill banning TikTok. The document contains a clause that the ban will come into force after 270 days if the Chinese company ByteDance, which owns the application, does not sell its business in the United States.

The American authorities motivated the TikTok ban by the fact that the application collects personal data of users and therefore poses a threat to US national security.

In turn, representatives of Byte Dance called the TikTok ban a violation of Americans' right to freedom of speech and assured that the personal data of American users of the application will not be transferred to the Chinese government, even if it demands it.

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