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Austria to join countries banning TikTok from government phones

FILE PHOTO-Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner attends a news conference in Vienna, Austria, October 19, 2022. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

Austria will join the growing list of countries banning Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government employees' work phones, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Wednesday.

Various Western countries including Britain, the United States and several other European Union member states have already barred TikTok over security concerns. The EU's two biggest policymaking institutions also banned the app in March.

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