Australia will announce a ban on TikTok on government phones this week, after other countries banned the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns, an Australian newspaper reported on Monday evening.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has agreed to a government ban on the use of TikTok following a Home Office investigation, The Australian newspaper reported.

The state of Victoria will also ban short-form video applications from government phones, the Age newspaper reported, citing a state government official as saying Victoria would follow federal guidelines.

The United States, Great Britain, New Zealand, Canada, Belgium and the European Commission have banned the use of official devices for security reasons.

TikTok is under scrutiny amid concerns that user data from the Beijing-based ByteDance app could end up in the hands of the Chinese government, harming Western interests.

The Age newspaper quoted Tiktok Australia CEO Lee Hunter as saying the company was disappointed to learn of the ban on social media "even though we have repeatedly offered to work with the government together about this policy".

"We stress that there is no evidence to suggest that TikTok is in any way a security risk to Australians and should not be treated differently to other social media platforms," he was quoted as saying.