New Zealand to ban TikTok from lawmakers’ devices

New Zealand is set to join a growing list of countries to ban Chinese-owned social media app TikTok from lawmakers’ devices due to security concerns.

The ban will come into effect on March 31 and is expected to apply to all devices with access to the parliamentary network.

Parliamentary Service chief executive, Rafael Gonzalez-Montero, stated that the risks posed by the app were “not acceptable in the current New Zealand Parliamentary environment.”