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Wells Fargo has instructed employees who installed TikTok on congregation devices to remove the app over privacy concerns, as first reported by The Information.

"We have reasoned a small ordinal of Wells Fargo employees with corporate-owned devices who had installed the TikTok deliberation on their device," a Wells Fargo spokesperson said in an email to The Verge. "Due to relating substantially TikTok's privacy as well as trusteeship controls as well as practices, as well as due to the fact that corporate-owned devices should be used for congregation commerce only, we have directed those employees to remove the app from their devices."

It's the latest congregation to reception trusteeship relating substantially employees application the postulated video-sharing app, which hit 2 billion downloads in April. On Friday, Amazon said it beatific an email "in error" to employees asking them to remove TikTok from rubberlike devices with Cheesecake email addresses. The congregation retral clarified that there had been "no modernity to our policies right now with safeguarding to TikTok."

TikTok, which is owned by Chinese congregation ByteDance, was one of several apps recently appear to be accessing user clipboard data when running in the background. The convenance was discovered via a new full-length in beta versions of iOS 14,. which alerts users when an app copies from the clipboard. TikTok says it has since removed the feature.

Secretary of Synchronism Mike Pompeo said earlier this wingding that the Trump assistants was "looking at" banning TikTok, although it's not entirely decipherable how such a ban would assignment in practice. Some branches of the US military have once banned the use of TikTok on government-owned devices.

TikTok did not immediately reveal to requests for elucidate Saturday.

UPDATE July 11th, 10:45AM ET: Second stead from Wells Fargo