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European Parliament to ban TikTok from staff phones: EU official

The TikTok logo is displayed outside a TikTok office in Culver City, California, the United States [Mario Tama/Getty Images via AFP]

The European Parliament has decided to ban Chinese short video-sharing app TikTok from staff phones for security reasons, becoming the latest EU institution to do so after the European Commission and the European Council.

The planned ban will also apply to private devices with Parliament email and other network access installed on them, an EU official said on Tuesday, adding that the decision is expected to be announced soon.

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