The Danish defence ministry has joined other Western countries in banning the use of the Chinese short video platform TikTok on official mobile phones and other devices.

Use of the platform is prohibited for security reasons, but also because the app is only required to a very limited extent for employees’ work, the ministry said in Copenhagen on Monday.

Anyone who has Tiktok installed on their work cell phones or other work devices should delete the app as soon as possible.

The ministry followed a recommendation by the Danish Centre for Cyber Security (CFCS), which recently advised against using Tiktok on government agencies’ devices.

The country’s justice and climate and energy ministries are said to have already banned the app, according to Danish media reports.

The short video service from the Chinese ByteDance group has also been banned from company cell phones in other Western countries, for example in the United States, Canada and by the Latvian foreign ministry.