TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew and the TikTok logo in front of US flag
Shou Zi Chew and the TikTok logo.
  • More Western governments have banned TikTok from official devices.
  • That's a pretty overt indication they think the app spies for China.
  • TikTok denies it feeds user data to China, but the drip-drip of revelations hasn't helped.

Some of the most powerful Western governments have more or less decided that TikTok spies on people.

It's hard to conclude anything else after the US, the EU, Canada, the UK, Belgium, France, and the Czech Republic have either mandated or advised officials to delete the app from their phones, all in the space of four months.