The work phones used by civil servants, administrators and city council members have separation between work and private usage of the phone. The municipality is not currently using the popular video app TikTok for its services, the alderman wrote. Other apps, such as the Telegram messaging service, may soon follow, said a spokesperson for Meliani. These are countries such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran, the alderman said, referencing the AIVD.īy refusing such apps, Amsterdam wants to avert "a potential security risk with regard to information security and personal data protection," she said.
With this, the capital is following the Cabinet's lead, which advised government officials against using apps from countries with an "offensive cyber program" against the Netherlands on the basis of a report from intelligence service AIVD. The alderman responsible for the issue announced the intention in a letter to the full city council on Tuesday. The municipality of Amsterdam wants to ban apps such as TikTok from the work phones used by civil servants, said Touria Meliani.
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