Amazon asks employees to remove TikTok

Amazon cuts bridges with TikTok: with an email sent to all its employees in recent days, the group asked everyone to immediately remove the app from their terminal if there is also access to internal email on the same device. Accessing TikTok is not prohibited, as long as you access it from a browser and not through the dedicated app.

No TikTok for Amazon employees

The suspect has been creeping for some time now, that is, that the Chinese app has the trappings of the spy injected on the terminals of those who spontaneously install the social network on their smartphone. Amazon did not want to leave room for further doubts and asked employees to avoid any risk: remove the app.

Here's the email Amazon sent to employees this morning banning TikTok from employee phones.

"If you have TikTok on your device, you must remove it by 10-Jul to retain mobile access to Amazon email." pic.twitter.com/fIgmqyMhmO

- Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) July 10, 2020



In recent weeks thanks to a new security measure introduced by iOS 14 for example, it was discovered that TikTok (but not only) keeps track of the portions of text that the user archives by copying / pasting: this is dangerous behavior since it could allow password theft, putting user accounts at risk . In short, for Amazon this could mean a sort of mass espionage, which the group intends to avoid by empowering individual users and asking them to refrain from using the app in the viewfinder (albeit for fun and privately).

it is Not clear if Amazon has discovered something, or if harboured suspicions over what has emerged in the last few weeks. What is known is that the same institutions in the USA are imagining to block access to TikTok from the land of the stars and stripes for the suspects related to the excessive intrusiveness of the app in the privacy of the users. No comment from the team of Jeff Bezos, for now, only an order immediate and incontrovertible: remove TikTok from your smartphone, now.