An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon

An email banning our staff from using TikTok? Haha, funny story about that, we didn't mean it – Amazon

Amazon today said an internal email banning its staff from using TikTok on smartphones connected to their corporate inboxes was sent in "error." The admission – or climb down, depending on how skeptical you are – came after the memo was obtained and leaked by journalists.


The internet giant's IT department sent a note to some workers on Friday telling them to remove the Chinese video-sharing app from their mobile devices for security reasons, or lose access work emails from those devices, the New York Times first reported. TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, not only collects a lot of telemetry about your phone, we note, it is
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