
TikTok is undoubtedly the social network of the last years, which has put even the giants of the Meta group, Facebook and Instagram in crisis, focusing first on the young age and then spreading rapidly everywhere.
The app with short videos, from the teenage choreography of the beginnings is now used by politicians and serious analysts, even by the soldiers themselves on the front line of the war in Ukraine.
Benefiting from an algorithm that immediately adapts to the tastes of each of its users, and a more limited censorship than in the most popular social networks, TikTok has become an international phenomenon with more than 1 billion active users every month, but it still remains a Chinese venture, and this has generated a lot of suspicion, especially in a conflicted era like this.
The suspicions are that the data of these users goes to Beijing and is analyzed by the communist regime, mostly for commercial reasons, but only. Two days ago, the European Commission banned the use of TikTok from the phones of the administration of this institution, fearing that the social network could hide a surveillance system, where the risk in the field of cyber attacks is not excluded. EC employees must uninstall the program by March 15.
The Italian Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zanglillo, has stated that the government of Rome is considering blocking TikTok for more than 3 million civil servants.
While a law is being prepared in the US that could define the Chinese program as illegal in the entire American territory, European countries have begun to follow the example of Brussels.
The first appears to be Italy, which through its Minister for Public Administration, Paolo Zanglillo, has stated that the government of Rome is considering blocking TikTok for more than 3 million civil servants.
"The decision can be quick, maybe we will meet to discuss it within the coming week", declared the Italian minister.
The leaders of TikTok deny that the application has a spying function, and even say that user data is not processed in China, but in European countries, where they already have their headquarters.