Australia bans TikTok from federal government devices

The so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing partners – the United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand – have taken similar steps.

A sign up page for the application TikTok (Rick Rycroft/AP)

Australia has become the last of the Five Eyes security partners to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from its federal government’s devices.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said in a statement on Tuesday that based on intelligence and security agencies’ advice, that ban would come into effect “as soon as practicable”.