Has been meteoric. but with its popularity has come growing controversy, and that was ratcheted up a notch on thursday. european union staff have been ordered to delete the app from their phones "for security reasons" tiktok�*s chinese owner bytedance has long been accused of harvesting user data and passing it to the chinese government — allegations it has always denied. injanuary, us government employees were also banned from downloading tiktok. kevinjoyner is director of data strategy at the digital agency croud. in your view, how much of a danger does a tiktok account pose to the owner...