March 31, 2023: NATO bans TikTok on employee devices
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the transatlantic military alliance of 30 nations, including the U.S., barred its staffers from downloading TikTok on their work devices in late March. The app was already nearly unusable on NATO devices because of cybersecurity restrictions placed on employees of the coalition, but that prohibition became official policy with an email sent to all staffers on March 31.
“Cybersecurity is a top priority for NATO. NATO has robust requirements for determining applications for official business use. TikTok is not accessible on NATO devices,” a senior NATO official told CNN.
The ban came a week after TikTok’s CEO testified before in hopes of convincing lawmakers not to ban the app. It did not go well.
