France announced that it would ban government personnel from using TikTok and Twitter programs on their mobile phones.

　　The French government announced on March 24th that it would ban government personnel from using TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other entertainment applications on mobile phones due to concerns about data security.

　　According to Al Jazeera and Associated Press, on March 24th, local time, the French Ministry of Reform and Public Administration issued this notice, saying that the ban would take effect immediately. Stanislas Guerini, French Minister of Reform and Public Administration, wrote in a statement: "In order to ensure the network security of our government and civil servants, the government decided to ban civil servants from using TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and other entertainment applications on professional telephones. These entertainment applications cannot serve national administration and may pose a threat to data security. "

　　Grini added that for several weeks, many European allies and international partners of France have taken measures to restrict or prohibit their government workers from downloading, installing or using TikTok.

　　According to Reuters’s previous report, on February 23rd, the European Commission banned its employees from using TikTok for office work on security grounds. On February 27th, the Canadian government announced that TikTok； would be banned from all mobile devices of Canadian government departments. On February 27th, the White House also asked government agencies to ensure that TikTok is disabled on their federal equipment and systems within 30 days.

　　According to a report by The Wall Street Journal on March 15th, a person familiar with the matter disclosed that the Biden administration of the United States threatened TikTok and asked ByteDance to sell its shares in TikTok, otherwise the application would be banned in the United States. Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok, said that the so-called "security risks" in the United States could not be solved by cutting TikTok from China. He welcomed feedback from all walks of life on the risks in TikTok and stressed that no risks could be solved.

　　On March 16th, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin responded at a regular press conference that data security should not be a tool for individual countries to generalize the concept of national security, abuse state power and unreasonably suppress enterprises in other countries. So far, the United States has failed to produce evidence to prove that TikTok threatens the national security of the United States. It should stop spreading false information on data security issues, stop unreasonably suppressing relevant enterprises, and provide an open, fair, just and non-discriminatory business environment for enterprises from all countries to invest and operate in the United States.