Wells Fargo tells employees to remove TikTok from their work phones
What you need to know
- Wells Fargo has told employees to remove TikTok from corporate-owned devices.
- It cited "concerns about TikTok's privacy and security controls and practices."
- However, it also said that corporate devices were for "business only."
Wells Fargo has told its employees to remove TikTok from corporate-owned devices, citing both security concerns, and the fact that the phones should be for "business only."
In a statement the company said:
The news follows the bizarre instance of similar guidance issued by Amazon to employees. Amazon employees were told to delete TikTok from any device that had access to Amazon email by Friday, July 10. In a strange twist, Amazon clarified later that the email had been sent to employees "in error".
TikTok has come under intense scrutiny in recent weeks because of privacy and security concerns, in part following revelations about clipboard snooping in iOS. Earlier this week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News that the U.S. was seriously considering banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps in the U.S. stating:
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