We’re expecting Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden will confirm this in a statement to Parliament early this afternoon. Probably around 1300 UK.
The EU Commission, more than half of US states and Congress have already implemented a ban.
AT
I’m surprised any social media apps were allowed on government phones.
I had a work phone for a small it company a few years back, they were super strict about which apps were allowed on it.
I’m astonished it’s not already. Why government phones aren’t already stupidly restrictively locked down I don’t understand.
Why aren’t gov phones locked down in the first place
is porn banned too? what will tory mps do in parliament then?
I haven’t for one second even thought about using my work provided phone for anything but work. If this is reactive rather than preventative it’s not a good sign at all.
They should probably ban Whatsapp too from the constant leaks, keep business communication to business apps, so email or teams/slack
I work for a social media platform (P0rnHub) and we aren’t allowed to download most apps on to our work phones.
And our company website is even blocked too- must take it up with IT but the guys always just sitting there on our intranet
Government phones should be old bricks with only the ability to email, call and text
I hate tiktok, they can ban it for everyone for all I care
Omg just Fu@king do it already! They’ve been *talking* about it for over a year now!
Really showing the levels of incompetency.
Majority of IT departments in the UK have already blocked this.
Get these Tory Bastards OUT.
Nah hold on does this mean enough govt staff are watching tiktoks for it to be a country-wide PROBLEM? I’m rolling
why the fuck is this necessary in the first place, have these people never heard of mobile device management?
Why would you need TikTok on your work phone anyway?
How was this ever even a thing?! How did anyone think using social media apps on a government or corporate phone without specific organisational need ever a good idea?!
Use reddit to catch when a comment is shadow banned immediately that you might be into a very real truth. Post a good theory and see if they are being sponsored to block that idea. Check by using a incognito tab to check the same feed. I know it’s ‘Reddit’ but it’s excellent fishing, especially in Worldnews threads! Modded by Shills for the psychotic agenda engines of nightmare futures usually.
My comment Insta-banned on (r/worldnews) immediately (RE: TikTok banned on UK Gov phones):
To not be spied on with a phone, you need Third Party Open Source Operating System on the device! You’d also need to have access and control over the Hardware Coding! The BIOS/equivalent can be the spying system. Does anyone understand how devices work anymore? There are layers of the device that can be compromised. The greatest spying apps are Apple iOS and Android OS, throw in Windows OS, Mac OS… There should have been a wave of Unix and Linux uptake when we all still stood a chance of avoiding a surveillance society.
YOUR DEVICE IS SPYING ON YOU 24/7, it’s embedded in the root of the device/system!!!
P.s. Any crystal/antennae hardware in your device can be used to pick up sound and embed it in the WiFi signal itself. If you want to find sneaky, think sneaky.
My comment Insta-banned on (r/worldnews) immediately (RE: TikTok banned on UK Gov phones): To not be spied on with a phone, you need Third Party Open Source Operating System on the device! You’d also need to have access and control over the Hardware Coding! The BIOS/equivalent can be the spying system. Does anyone understand how devices work anymore? There are layers of the device that can be compromised. The greatest spying apps are Apple iOS and Android OS, throw in Windows OS, Mac OS… There should have been a wave of Unix and Linux uptake when we all still stood a chance of avoiding a surveillance society.
YOUR DEVICE IS SPYING ON YOU 24/7, it’s embedded in the root of the device/system!!!
P.s. Any crystal/antennae hardware in your device can be used to pick up sound and embed it in the WiFi signal itself. If you want to find sneaky, think sneaky.
Use reddit to catch when a comment is shadow banned immediately that you might be into a very real truth. Post a good theory and see if they are being sponsored to block that idea. Check by using a incognito tab to check the same feed. I know it’s ‘Reddit’ but it’s excellent fishing, especially in Worldnews threads! Modded by Shills for the psychotic agenda engines of nightmare futures usually.
Why do you have tiktok in your stupid fuckin work phone? Get a personal phone and put your stupid tiktok and all the stupid social media in it. As simple as that.
They do have TikTok accounts for some cities and such. I thought those were only on special computers though. Like all government social media accounts I thought they were only on certain computers to prevent security leaks from the account but allow posts from the account after the post has been moderated and checked and touched up and gone though about fourteen employees and still no one noticed something glaringly obvious in the background that shouldn’t be there.
I’m don’t understand why anyone would be shocked by this. I work for the Canadian government and we recently instituted a similar ban on work phones. You shouldn’t have ANY social media on these devices. They have so much sensitive information on them.
Civil services phones are managed and locked down, you can’t install anything unless you request it from a very limited list of apps. I don’t know how other people in government manage to install tiktok, unless there’s different rules for ministers etc.
Why the need for TikTok on the work phone of a grown ass adult anyway? Surely they don’t need TikTok for work? If I download games etc.. on to my work computer I’d get a warning.
TikTok is a straw man argument – what about Signal, Telegram and Whatsapp? These have been abused more by MPs during Covid lockdowns to pass messages. I’m looking at you, Matt Hancock…
Nonsense, there’s not a government on the planet that can stop time.
I’m surprised people do any personal shit on their work phones especially working for the government lol
I wouldn’t even class this as news let alone breaking news.
Why tf do people have Tik Tok on their work phones!?
I am surprised that government workers are allowed to install an app that has a super sketchy privacy policy.
No government official should be using any social media app, except for the relevant departmental press officer.
This particularly applies to the police. They used to be told that the Official Secrets Acts applied to everything that they encountered on duty, and couldn’t release any information without getting permission.
Now, they seem to spend most of their time telling everyone every minute detailed of the little that they had done on their shift.
The propaganda by the Uk government and its state media against China is disgusting.
People said that Zoom, TikTok and Huwaei couldn’t be trusted years ago but they were told “tHat’s A rAciSt cOnspirACy tHeoRy!”.
WHY IS IT EVEN ON THEM AT ALL. I work in IT and wouldn’t dream of social media apps being installed on my work phone. I run my work apps on my work phone and personal apps on my personal phone. Is it so damn hard?!
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Why does anyone in government even want tik tok on their work phone? It’s bad enough that the cabinet uses WhatsApp for confidential communications. It’s a bit late to worry about the Chinese government now isn’t it?
It is beyond farcical that non work-related apps were allowed on official phones in the first place
If you’ve got TiKTok on your work phone you really need to take a hard look at yourself
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Tory MP ‘caught watching porn in House of Commons’ as chief whip investigates
Wednesday 27 April 2022 12:14
How has this not happened sooner? Complete shite Tik Tok
So, errm, government acknowledges that bad apps do bad things with your data…
… better encrypt everything then…
Wait no the government wants broken encryption and trusts that phones will only have good apps on them…
The lack of joined up thinking is spectacular, it’s almost like they fired or ignored anyone with relevant knowledge.
This is just posturing as government work phones are limited in what they can install for security reasons and have always been just like other countries, it’s a bit like a new announcement for free bus travel for pensioners when it has always been free.
I thought Tiktok was for Kids?.. which makes sense why they’d use it
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We’re expecting Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden will confirm this in a statement to Parliament early this afternoon. Probably around 1300 UK.
The EU Commission, more than half of US states and Congress have already implemented a ban.
AT
I’m surprised any social media apps were allowed on government phones.
I had a work phone for a small it company a few years back, they were super strict about which apps were allowed on it.
I’m astonished it’s not already. Why government phones aren’t already stupidly restrictively locked down I don’t understand.
Why aren’t gov phones locked down in the first place
is porn banned too? what will tory mps do in parliament then?
I haven’t for one second even thought about using my work provided phone for anything but work. If this is reactive rather than preventative it’s not a good sign at all.
They should probably ban Whatsapp too from the constant leaks, keep business communication to business apps, so email or teams/slack
I work for a social media platform (P0rnHub) and we aren’t allowed to download most apps on to our work phones.
And our company website is even blocked too- must take it up with IT but the guys always just sitting there on our intranet
Government phones should be old bricks with only the ability to email, call and text
I hate tiktok, they can ban it for everyone for all I care
Omg just Fu@king do it already! They’ve been *talking* about it for over a year now!
Really showing the levels of incompetency.
Majority of IT departments in the UK have already blocked this.
Get these Tory Bastards OUT.
Nah hold on does this mean enough govt staff are watching tiktoks for it to be a country-wide PROBLEM? I’m rolling
why the fuck is this necessary in the first place, have these people never heard of mobile device management?
Why would you need TikTok on your work phone anyway?
How was this ever even a thing?! How did anyone think using social media apps on a government or corporate phone without specific organisational need ever a good idea?!
Use reddit to catch when a comment is shadow banned immediately that you might be into a very real truth. Post a good theory and see if they are being sponsored to block that idea. Check by using a incognito tab to check the same feed. I know it’s ‘Reddit’ but it’s excellent fishing, especially in Worldnews threads! Modded by Shills for the psychotic agenda engines of nightmare futures usually.
My comment Insta-banned on (r/worldnews) immediately (RE: TikTok banned on UK Gov phones):
To not be spied on with a phone, you need Third Party Open Source Operating System on the device! You’d also need to have access and control over the Hardware Coding! The BIOS/equivalent can be the spying system. Does anyone understand how devices work anymore? There are layers of the device that can be compromised. The greatest spying apps are Apple iOS and Android OS, throw in Windows OS, Mac OS… There should have been a wave of Unix and Linux uptake when we all still stood a chance of avoiding a surveillance society.
YOUR DEVICE IS SPYING ON YOU 24/7, it’s embedded in the root of the device/system!!!
P.s. Any crystal/antennae hardware in your device can be used to pick up sound and embed it in the WiFi signal itself. If you want to find sneaky, think sneaky.
My comment Insta-banned on (r/worldnews) immediately (RE: TikTok banned on UK Gov phones): To not be spied on with a phone, you need Third Party Open Source Operating System on the device! You’d also need to have access and control over the Hardware Coding! The BIOS/equivalent can be the spying system. Does anyone understand how devices work anymore? There are layers of the device that can be compromised. The greatest spying apps are Apple iOS and Android OS, throw in Windows OS, Mac OS… There should have been a wave of Unix and Linux uptake when we all still stood a chance of avoiding a surveillance society.
YOUR DEVICE IS SPYING ON YOU 24/7, it’s embedded in the root of the device/system!!!
P.s. Any crystal/antennae hardware in your device can be used to pick up sound and embed it in the WiFi signal itself. If you want to find sneaky, think sneaky.
Use reddit to catch when a comment is shadow banned immediately that you might be into a very real truth. Post a good theory and see if they are being sponsored to block that idea. Check by using a incognito tab to check the same feed. I know it’s ‘Reddit’ but it’s excellent fishing, especially in Worldnews threads! Modded by Shills for the psychotic agenda engines of nightmare futures usually.
Why do you have tiktok in your stupid fuckin work phone? Get a personal phone and put your stupid tiktok and all the stupid social media in it. As simple as that.
They do have TikTok accounts for some cities and such. I thought those were only on special computers though. Like all government social media accounts I thought they were only on certain computers to prevent security leaks from the account but allow posts from the account after the post has been moderated and checked and touched up and gone though about fourteen employees and still no one noticed something glaringly obvious in the background that shouldn’t be there.
I’m don’t understand why anyone would be shocked by this. I work for the Canadian government and we recently instituted a similar ban on work phones. You shouldn’t have ANY social media on these devices. They have so much sensitive information on them.
Civil services phones are managed and locked down, you can’t install anything unless you request it from a very limited list of apps. I don’t know how other people in government manage to install tiktok, unless there’s different rules for ministers etc.
Why the need for TikTok on the work phone of a grown ass adult anyway? Surely they don’t need TikTok for work? If I download games etc.. on to my work computer I’d get a warning.
TikTok is a straw man argument – what about Signal, Telegram and Whatsapp? These have been abused more by MPs during Covid lockdowns to pass messages. I’m looking at you, Matt Hancock…
Nonsense, there’s not a government on the planet that can stop time.
I’m surprised people do any personal shit on their work phones especially working for the government lol
I wouldn’t even class this as news let alone breaking news.
Why tf do people have Tik Tok on their work phones!?
I am surprised that government workers are allowed to install an app that has a super sketchy privacy policy.
No government official should be using any social media app, except for the relevant departmental press officer.
This particularly applies to the police. They used to be told that the Official Secrets Acts applied to everything that they encountered on duty, and couldn’t release any information without getting permission.
Now, they seem to spend most of their time telling everyone every minute detailed of the little that they had done on their shift.
The propaganda by the Uk government and its state media against China is disgusting.
People said that Zoom, TikTok and Huwaei couldn’t be trusted years ago but they were told “tHat’s A rAciSt cOnspirACy tHeoRy!”.
WHY IS IT EVEN ON THEM AT ALL. I work in IT and wouldn’t dream of social media apps being installed on my work phone. I run my work apps on my work phone and personal apps on my personal phone. Is it so damn hard?!
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Why does anyone in government even want tik tok on their work phone? It’s bad enough that the cabinet uses WhatsApp for confidential communications. It’s a bit late to worry about the Chinese government now isn’t it?
It is beyond farcical that non work-related apps were allowed on official phones in the first place
If you’ve got TiKTok on your work phone you really need to take a hard look at yourself
​
Tory MP ‘caught watching porn in House of Commons’ as chief whip investigates
Wednesday 27 April 2022 12:14
How has this not happened sooner? Complete shite Tik Tok
So, errm, government acknowledges that bad apps do bad things with your data…
… better encrypt everything then…
Wait no the government wants broken encryption and trusts that phones will only have good apps on them…
The lack of joined up thinking is spectacular, it’s almost like they fired or ignored anyone with relevant knowledge.
This is just posturing as government work phones are limited in what they can install for security reasons and have always been just like other countries, it’s a bit like a new announcement for free bus travel for pensioners when it has always been free.
I thought Tiktok was for Kids?.. which makes sense why they’d use it