Here are the countries that have bans on TikTok


People calling for the banning of TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing app, attend a news conference at the Capitol in Washington. — AP

LONDON: A growing number of countries in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific have banned the popular video-sharing app TikTok from government devices as privacy and cybersecurity concerns increase. A handful have prohibited the app altogether.

The company's CEO faced a grilling Thursday from US lawmakers. TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese technology company Bytedance, has long maintained that it does not share data with the Chinese government.

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