Amazon asks employees to delete TikTok 'due to security risks'

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Amazon told employees in an email on Friday to delete Chinese app TikTok from phones due to 'security risks'. The email, confirmed by Amazon employees to The Independent and first reported by The New

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In addition to security issues, this is also an attitude. AntiBully TiktokBan

They are going to ban in US & incoming for EU & Canada probably August. Good, the addiction to it is unreal, twitter is bad enough, downloaded more than 2 billion times globally. Not even 2 years old. 315 million times this quarter alone in the App Store & Google Play combined.

RobertTBruce8 What security risks. What the CCP can see your appaling dancing and goofy videos?

Good

T_Noble87

Yes because Amazon dosent like the competition with them spying on their employees

And so the widespread China boycott begins.

TikTok spy on you long time

Amaz-on, I’m Amaz-ed 🤩 (sorry for the punch, I know this is really bad)

Isn't what you have on your personal private phone your own personal private business?

asks?

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