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Wells Fargo enables TikTok to be removed from mobile devices
Wells Fargo has instructed employees who have TikTok installed on company devices to delete the app for privacy concerns as the information first reported.
"We found a small number of Wells Fargo staff with business devices that have installed TikTok on their devices," a Wells Fargo spokesperson told The Verge in an email. "We have directed these employees to remove the application from their devices because they have concerns about TikTok 's privacy, security controls and practices and because business-owned devices should be used only for businesses.
It is the latest company that has expressed security concerns over its employees using the popular April video-sharing app. On Friday, Amazon told employees that it was "in error" to remove TikTok from Amazon e-mail addresses on mobile devices. The company subsequently clarified that "no changes have already been made in our TikTok policies."
One of several apps recently disclosed to access user clippboard data when it runs in the behind-the-scenes, TikTok is a Chinese company ByteDance. The practice has been found through a new feature in iOS 14 beta versions, which alerts users when an app copies the clipboard.
TikTok says that the feature has been deleted since.
State Secretary Mike Pompeo said earlier this week that TikTok was banned by the Trump administration but it is not completely clear how such a ban would actually work. Some US military branches have already prohibited the use of TikTok on government-owned equipment.
TikTok did not reply to Saturday's comments requests immediately.
