A join web page for the appliance TikTok is proven on a cellular phone in entrance of a display with logos for the corporate in Sydney, Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

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A join web page for the appliance TikTok is proven on a cellular phone in entrance of a display with logos for the corporate in Sydney, Tuesday, April 4, 2023.

Rick Rycroft/AP

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has change into the final of the “Five Eyes” safety companions to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from its federal authorities’s units.

Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus mentioned in a press release Tuesday that based mostly on intelligence and safety companies’ recommendation, that ban would come into impact “as soon as practicable.”

The so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing companions — the United States, Canada, Britain and New Zealand — have taken related steps.

TikTok is owned by the Chinese expertise firm Bytedance and has lengthy maintained that it doesn’t share information with the Chinese authorities. It is finishing up a venture to retailer U.S. consumer information in Texas, which it says will put it out China’s attain.

The firm additionally disputes accusations it collects extra consumer information than different social media firms, and insists that it’s run independently by its personal administration.

The European Parliament, European Commission and the EU Council, the 27-member bloc’s three essential establishments, have additionally imposed bans on TikTok on employees units. Under the European Parliament’s ban, which took impact final month, lawmakers and employees have been additionally suggested to take away the TikTok app from their private units.

India imposed a nationwide ban on TikTok and dozens of different Chinese apps, together with the messaging app WeChat, in 2020 over privateness and safety issues. The ban got here shortly after a conflict between Indian and Chinese troops at a disputed Himalayan border killed 20 Indian troopers and injured dozens.

In early March, the U.S. gave authorities companies 30 days to delete TikTok from federal units and methods. The ban applies solely to authorities units, although some U.S. lawmakers are advocating an outright ban.

China has lashed out on the U.S. for banning TikTok, saying it’s an abuse of state energy and is suppressing firms from different international locations.

More than half of the 50 U.S. states even have banned the app from official units, as have Congress and the U.S. armed forces.