article ul li { list-style: disc; padding: 5px 0; } March 17 (UPI) -- New Zealand banned TikTok from all devices with parliamentary access, including lawmakers' phones, on Friday, making it the latest democratic nation to restrict use of the wildly popular Chinese-owned smartphone application. AdvertisementOwned by Beijing-based ByteDance, TikTok has sparked fears over the potential leak of user data to the authoritarian Chinese government that have only increased after the United States shot down a Chinese spy balloon last month while allegedly it's part of the Asian nation's wide-ranging espionage campaign. "Meanwhile, China has reacted to the moves and allegations from the United States as fallacies and attempts to politicize technology and trade issues