France Plans to Recommend Ministers Give Up TikTok, Other Apps
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The French government is planning to ask cabinet ministers to avoid using TikTok and similar apps on their personal phones, according to two people with direct knowledge of the discussions.
The government is mulling the guidelines in part over concerns about security with the Chinese-owned social media app, according to one of the people. They requested anonymity in order to discuss private deliberations. Social media apps such as TikTok are already banned from their professional phones.