Canada's electronic spy agency is watching out for security threats from the popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.
Responding to questions from reporters in a pre-cabinet scrum on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said the Communications Security Establishment, Canada's foreign signals intelligence agency, is keeping an eye on TikTok as Republican lawmakers move to ban the app in the U.S.
Rubio's bill would block all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China and Russia, the senator's office said in a news release.The bill would be an expansion of existing American laws restricting access to TikTok. The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill in August 2020 banning federal employees from using the app on government-issued devices.
The spokesperson said TikTok has never provided Canadian user data to the Chinese government and would not if it were asked to do so. Canadian user data is stored in data centres in the U.S. and Singapore, the spokesperson added.
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