EU and parts of US already block access to Chinese-owned app amid concerns over data privacy and security
Canada has joined the US and EU in enacting a sweeping ban preventing TikTok from being installed on all government-issued mobile devices, as western officials take action over the Chinese-owned video-sharing app.
“I’m always a fan of giving Canadians the information for them to make the right decisions for them.”The EU’s executive branch said last week it had temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure. On Tuesday, the European parliament followed suit, banning staff from installing the app on any phone that had access to email or parliamentary networks., more than half of the states and Congress have banned TikTok from official government devices.
TikTok faces intensifying scrutiny from Europe and the US over security and data privacy amid worries that the app could be used to promote pro-Beijing views or sweep up users’ information. It comes as China and the west are locked in a wider tug of war over technology, from spy balloons to computer chips.it had used its app to spy on a number of US journalists as part of a leak investigation and fired at least four staff as a result.
The Canadian treasury board president, Mona Fortier, said the federal government would also block the app from being downloaded on official devices in the future. Fortier said the chief information officer of Canada had determined it presented “an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security … On a mobile device, TikTok’s data collection methods provide considerable access to the contents of the phone,” Fortier said.
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