Federal and several provincial privacy authorities say they will jointly investigate TikTok.
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada says it has teamed up with the offices of the information and privacy commissioners in B.C., Alberta and Quebec to look into the short-form video streaming application.
The investigation is also aimed at determined whether the company is meeting transparency obligations, especially when collecting personal information from its users. TikTok has long been embroiled in privacy concerns because the Chinese government has a stake in ByteDance and laws allow the country to access user data.
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