Jeff Bezos instructs employees to delete TikTok from phones that access Amazon email server

Published July 10, 2020 8:35pm ET



Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is taking steps to reduce security risks posed to his company by demanding that all employees delete the ultra-popular video app TikTok from phones that access the company’s email server.

In an email sent to company employees on Friday, Bezos instructed staff to delete the Chinese-based social media app from any phone that can “access Amazon email.”

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