TikTok is SAFE in Britain as ‘posting videos of cats’ does not threaten national security, Cabinet Minister says

TIKTOK is harmless successful Britain for present due to the fact that radical “posting videos of their cats” is not a nationalist information threat, a Cabinet Minister has said. 

Darren Jones contiguous allayed fears the UK could follow the US successful banning the fashionable doomscroll app. 

China critics person pressed the authorities to outlaw the Beijing-headquartered tract amid imaginable spying and information harvesting concerns.

Today millions of Americans were denied entree to TikTok arsenic their prohibition kicked in, though incoming President Donald Trump has suggested helium could assistance a 90-day reprieve.

Mr Jones told the BBC that “national information oregon information privateness concerns” volition beryllium kept “under consideration”. 

But the Treasury Chief Secretary added: “We person nary plans close present to prohibition TikTok from the UK.

"So, we won't beryllium pursuing the aforesaid way that the Americans person followed unless oregon until astatine immoderate constituent successful the aboriginal determination is simply a menace that we are acrophobic astir successful the British interest."

He added: "On Government devices, for example, we've not been allowed to usage TikTok for galore years, the past Conservative authorities took the aforesaid presumption due to the fact that there's delicate accusation connected those devices.

“But for consumers who privation to station videos of their cats oregon dancing, that doesn't look similar a nationalist information menace to me."

Dame Priti Patel said the Tories were not presently pushing for a prohibition connected TikTok, which is owned by Chinese steadfast ByteDance.

The Shadow Foreign Secretary said: “We person a very, precise wide attack - not conscionable from my party, but besides successful the UK - successful presumption of China and immoderate of the nationalist security, and, situation I accidental it, conscionable the day-to-day information concerns that their platforms bring to our country.

"I deliberation it is just to accidental we volition beryllium pursuing what is happening successful America with regards to TikTok connected galore of the concerns that person been raised implicit here."

Asked if she would prohibition TikTok, Dame Priti said: "I'm not considering it. We should ever beryllium looking astatine what different countries are doing.