Amazon ‘accidentally’ banned TikTok from employees’ mobile devices

Amazon sent an email to its employees on Friday banning the installation of the app on mobile devices that have access to Amazon email addresses. This is because of ‘security risks’. Shortly afterwards, it said that the email should not have been sent.

The email also stated that it was still allowed to use TikTok on Amazon-owned laptops. The email was immediately shared widely on Twitter, among others. Later, without further explanation, Amazon to, among others, The Verge know that the email was “accidentally” sent and that there are “currently no policy changes related to TikTok.”

TikTok owner ByteDance said in a comment that it “respects user privacy” and that it does not understand Amazon’s concerns. A dialogue between the two parties is welcome as far as ByteDance is concerned. ByteDance is a Chinese company.

Meanwhile, there is another company that apparently finally pulls this trigger; The Information writes Wells Fargo has warned its employees to stop using TikTok. On a national level, the US government said last week that it is looking into banning TikTok, but that has not yet come to an end.

Last month it turned out that TikTok on iOS regularly reads the contents of the clipboard. According to ByteDance, this is an anti-spam measure. The developer has promised to stop it.

Source: @TaylorLorenz on Twitter