The National Security Council (NSC) is finding out the opportunity of banning social media platform TikTok among the many authorities’s uniformed personnel to keep away from a attainable ‘knowledge leak.’
“What I can do is to raise this with the National Security Adviser [Eduardo Año] if it would be proper for us to do so kasi alam mo naman dito sa Pilipinas… sabihin curtailment of the freedom of expression, curtailment of the freedom of speech,” NSC Assistant Director General Jonathan Malaya stated throughout the Saturday News Forum in Quezon City.
Malaya stated banning TikTok amongst authorities employees must be studied fastidiously “based on national security consideration.”
“We will discuss this with the National Security Adviser if it will be proper for the Philippines to take this step,” he stated.
Several nations, such because the United States, India, and Canada have already introduced strikes to ban TikTok, owned by a Chinese firm, on authorities telephones and state employees.
This is amid issues that the appliance may give delicate use knowledge to the Chinese authorities.
For the Philippine setting, Malaya clarified that “if there is a need for banning [TikTok], it would not be for public school teachers, it would not be for those in the civilian agencies.”
“It would be for the security sector, I’m talking about the Armed Forces, the uniformed personnel and in particular the intelligence entities of the government —the National Security Council,” he stated.
The NSC official additionally emphasised the must be “security conscious” because of the “information operations, psychological warfare, and other stuff being…”
“I would think that we should seriously consider for the security sector alone, not for the other civilian agencies of government which are not part of the security sector. Precisely, the reason is for operational security,” Malaya stated. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
