The tough days continue for the popular social network. Now, the Government of Canada announced last Monday that effective today, February 28, 2023, the TikTok app will be banned on the mobile devices it provides to its staff, alleging “an unacceptable level of risk. for privacy and security. .

“On a mobile device, TikTok’s data collection methods provide considerable access to phone content,” Treasury Minister Mona Fortier said, adding in a statement that the decision was made “as a precautionary measure.”

Additionally, Fortier added that they have “no reason to believe at this time that any government information has been compromised.”

The TikTok spokesperson only regretted this decision, considering it curious

Given the measure, a TikTok spokeswoman commented that the Canadian decision to block the app was “curious”, since it was taken “without citing specific security concerns”, and regretted that the government did not contact them before the official announcement.

Esto succeeds in the middle of a controversy in the Western countries, specifically Estados Unidos y Canada, with the popular social platform, owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, which considers that the application can serve Beijing to access así a los datos de usuarios de todo the world.

This ban in Canada comes days after a similar decision by the European Commission, which banned its staff from using TikTok to “protect” the institution.

Along with this, the President of the United States signed a law a few weeks ago that bans the use of this application in the House of Representatives and the Senate, as well as on the devices of administration officials.

Relations between China and Canada have deteriorated dramatically in recent years, especially after the arrest by Ottawa, at the request of the United States, of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in 2018.