“An examination of the mobile application’s behaviour in regard to the Service and Digital Policy discovered that TikTok’s data collecting practises may leave users exposed to cyber assaults,” the memo ostensibly states. It is possible that authorities in Canada, like their colleagues in the United States and the European Union, are worried about the Chinese government having access to the data TikTok maintains on Canadian citizens and residents. TikTok’s main company, ByteDance, is based in China, where rules require corporations to divulge data with authorities when asked.
ByteDance has denied that the Chinese government has access to such information. It claims that Canadian user data is held in the United States and Singapore. Yet, it said that former workers in China and the United States downloaded data on American journalists, ostensibly to identify the origins of the company’s leaks.
