Following a report from Denmark’s Center for Cyber Security stating that there was a possibility of espionage, the Danish Parliament took action. The organization is a component of the Danish foreign intelligence service.
Tuesday, the 179-member Danish Parliament issued a warning that “there is a risk of espionage” and warned lawmakers and employees against installing TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure.

There are concerns that TikTok could be used to promote views that are favorable to Beijing or to snoop on user information. As a result, the popular video-sharing app, which is owned by China, is coming under increasing scrutiny from Europe and the United States regarding data privacy and security.

According to Sren Gade, the Speaker of the Danish Parliament, an email with the subject line “a strong recommendation that you delete the TikTok app if you have previously installed it” was sent to lawmakers and employees on Tuesday.
Following a report from Denmark’s Center for Cyber Security stating that there was a possibility of espionage, the assembly took action. The organization is a component of the Danish foreign intelligence service.

In a statement, Gade said, “We adapt accordingly.”

At the time of writing, the number of Danish lawmakers with TikTok installed was unknown. Recently, a number of politicians have made it clear that, for security reasons, they had removed the app from their work phones.

As a cybersecurity precaution, the executive branch of the European Union announced earlier this month that it had temporarily removed TikTok from employee phones.

The EU’s move follows similar ones taken in the United States, where TikTok has been banned from official government devices by more than half of the 50 states and Congress.

The justice minister had to apologize this month in Norway, one of the EU’s 27 members, for not disclosing that she had installed TikTok on her government-issued phone.