{"id":30857,"date":"2023-03-16T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/03\/16\/immediate-tiktok-ban-on-government-mobile-phones\/"},"modified":"2023-03-16T16:12:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T16:12:47","slug":"immediate-tiktok-ban-on-government-mobile-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=30857","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Immediate&#8217; TikTok ban on government mobile phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Oliver Dowden has announced a ban of the use of the TikTok social media app on government devices over cyber-security fears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Cabinet Office minister said there would be an approved list for third-party apps for Whitehall devices, along with an immediate ban on TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Labour\u2019s deputy leader Angela Rayner said the government was \u201cbehind the curve\u201d and was offering a \u201csticking plaster\u201d while holes remained in national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64975672\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">UK ministers banned from using Chinese app TikTok on government phones<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-64980117?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Oliver Dowden has announced a ban of the use of the TikTok social media app on government devices over cyber-security fears. The Cabinet Office minister said there would be &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}