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Our parent company is also incorporated outside of China and is majority owned by global institutional investors," the spokesperson said. In a statement shared with POLITICO, a TikTok spokesperson said the company was "disappointed" at Belgium's ban, which is based on "basic misinformation." On Thursday, the IT agency of the government of Flanders, Belgium's northern region, already decided to block access to TikTok for all government services that use the centralized IT services and government network. The National Security Council also urged regional and local governments to issue a “similar” ban and asks the Belgian data protection authority to investigate TikTok’s privacy policy. The company has denied posing a security risk.īelgian government officials using personal phones won't face hard restrictions but authorities still recommended them not to install TikTok. TikTok, which is owned by Chinese tech firm ByteDance, this week launched a European charm offensive and promised changes to its data protection policies to alleviate concerns around its use.

The popular Chinese video app was banned by EU institutions at the end of February in a series of decisions that prevent staff from using and installing the app on work-related phones. The Brussels regional government on Friday evening decided to follow suit and ban TikTok from officials’ phones for the next six months.