MADRID, March 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Latvian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it has banned its officials from installing the Chinese-owned TikTok app on their work electronics, as the European Commission, the United States have already done. United and Canada, alleging “security reasons”.

“For security reasons, I have deleted my TikTok account. The Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs prohibits the use of this app on smart devices that have ministry emails installed,” the owner of this app said. portfolio, Edgars Rinkevics, on his Twitter account.

Although Foreign Affairs has warned that the “success” of this application lies in its “high precision” to analyze and guess “what everyone wants to see” and which can be used to collect data on the diplomatic service, the wallet Defense sees no reason to impose the same measure.

For their part, some other ministries, such as that of Social Affairs, are studying the measure, although they have indicated that it will not only be prohibited to install Tik Tok on official devices and phones, but also all applications that do not. had nothing to do with work, reports the LSM news portal.

In recent days, the United States, Canada and the European Union have banned their officials from using TikTok on their official phones, citing cybersecurity and data protection concerns. For its part, TikTok rejects this decision and considers it “erroneous” and based “on misconceptions”.