The popular video-sharing app is Chinese owned, which has raised fears in the West that Beijing could use it to scoop up user data or push pro-China narratives or misinformation, according to AP.
Justice Minister Emilie Enger Mehl, 29, told lawmakers Wednesday that she had installed TikTok on her government phone for about a month last fall and has since deleted it. Questioned by opposition lawmakers in the past, she had dodged the issue citing “security reasons.”
“I could have been open about this earlier,” Enger Mehl said Wednesday. “I am sorry that the matter has developed in that way. … I see in retrospect that I should have been open about the fact that I had TikTok on a (government) phone earlier.”