hello and welcome. new zealand s government has become the latest to ban tiktok on devices with access to its parliamentary network, due to security concerns. this is because of fears that the chinese owned app passes information about users to the chinese government, something the owners, bytedance, deny. earlier on thursday, the uk followed the united states, and the european commission, in banning the app from sensitive government devices. china says it s a politically motivated decision, not one based on facts. our news reporter, azadeh moshiri, joins us now. why governments are so worried? given by lbs is a chinese company that owns tiktok, governments are concerned that user could be violated and uses personal information can be passed on to the chinese government bytedance. but bytedance and tiktok deny this, saying there is nowhere the chinese government can get its hands on the data, but this is why governments are so concerned, it is because the extent of data t