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France bans all recreational apps from government devices

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France bans TikTok and all other recreational apps from government-owned phones. Minister of transformation and public service Stanislas Guerini justified the ban. TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew was grilled by the US congress last week. House speaker Kevin McCarthy signalled a law would soon be tabled to sanction TikTok.

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France bans recreational apps like TikTok on government devices

France is the latest country that is taking steps to ban TikTok from government-managed devices. Stanislas Guerini, the Minister of Public Transformation and Service, and his services issued a succinct statement announcing the move and the reasoning behind this change. But there’s a twist. Instead of simply banning the social media app, the French government is saying that all recreational apps are now banned from work devices. “For the past few…

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France Bans All Fun Apps From Government Phones

In 2020, former President Donald Trump kicked off a worldwide frenzy about TikTok over the app’s potential security concerns. TikTok is now banned on government devices in the US, Canada, the UK, the EU, and elsewhere, and American lawmakers have their eyes on a national ban for consumers. The French, apparently, are…Read more...

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