Danish Defense Ministry Bans TikTok on Employee Work Phones

Danish Defense Ministry Bans TikTok on Employee Work Phones
A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, on Aug. 25, 2022. Martin Meissner/AP Photo
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark—NATO-member Denmark’s Defense Ministry on Monday banned its employees from having video-sharing app TikTok on their work phones as a cybersecurity measure.

It’s the latest government-related ban over security and data privacy for the app, which is owned by Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd..