Michael Dwyer Associated Press The ban on TikTok on public servants' devices was decided “as a preventive measure”, according to the Canadian government.
Ottawa will ban the installation of the TikTok social network on all government-issued cellphones starting tomorrow, February 28. The information first revealed by the National Post was confirmed by the Treasury Board on Monday.
“This application posed an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security,” Treasury Board President Mona Fortier said in a statement. This will cause TikTok users to have this app removed from their mobile devices.
TikTok, whose parent company ByteDance is Chinese-owned, regularly comes under suspicion from intelligence agencies who fear that it does not serve as spyware for Beijing. “TikTok's data collection methods provide considerable access to phone content,” Ottawa's statement supports in particular.
Use of TikTok is already prohibited in the United States for members of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The ban is a “preventative” decision, according to the Canadian government. “We have no reason to believe at this time that any government information has been compromised. »
More details will follow.
