What needs fixing here isn’t whether an employee at Service Canada has a fun app on their phone, but instead how Canada enforces and regulates privacy online. Opinion by navalang
After revelations that there may have been attempts by the Chinese government to influence Canadian elections, the country is on high alert. Let’s not forget to keep our eyes peeled for balloons.
Yet what it most likely represents is a bit of political theatre. As McMaster professor Vass Bednar put it in the Financial Post, the move “gives the impression that the government is taking action on China, despite its obvious superficiality.” At the same time, perhaps we wouldn’t be so worried about a social app if we had clearer rules around what data social apps are allowed to collect in the first place — that the problem isn’t just TikTok but also Canadian law.Part of the reason for the kerfuffle is that TikTok is wildly popular. The short form app is owned by Chinese company ByteDance, and has well over a billion users. It has also usurped other social apps to become the site of the zeitgeist of Gen Z.
Yet there is good reason to be concerned about TikTok that has little do with where its parent company is based.
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