Amazon on Friday said it mistakenly sent workers an email telling them to dump the TikTok mobile application from their cell phones because of security concerns. The internal message told workers they could still access the popular video-snippet sharing platform using laptop web browsers, but would
San Francisco - Amazon on Friday said it mistakenly sent workers an email telling them to dump the TikTok mobile application from their cell phones because of security concerns.
"This morning’s email to some of our employees was sent in error," an Amazon spokesperson said in reply to an AFP inquiry without going into detail.The concern expressed in the internal message appeared to be that the TikTok mobile app could access Amazon company email, according to a copy posted online.
TikTok this week withdrew from Hong Kong in an exit seen partly as an effort to shake off the"label of it being a company that is controlled by China and shares data with the Chinese government," Zhu Zhiqun, a political science professor at Bucknell University in the United States, told AFP.The app's feeds of 15- to 60-second video clips are often fun and humorous, featuring everything from make-up tutorials to dance routines.
US President Donald Trump said this week he was considering banning it as a way to punish China over the coronavirus pandemic.
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