The video platform has long been embroiled in privacy concerns because the Chinese government has a stake in its owner, ByteDance, and laws allow the country to access user data
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on The Trillium, a new Village Media website devoted exclusively to covering provincial politics at Queen’s Park.
“It’s something that we’re currently reviewing,” Treasury Board spokesman Ian Allen told The Trillium. On Monday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the federal government ban might encourage people and businesses to reflect on the security of their own data. On Monday, Trudeau defended MP Han Dong, an Ontario MPP from 2014 to 2018 who was elected as a federal Liberal MP in 2019 and re-elected in 2021. A Global News report alleges, citing national security sources, Dong was part of a Chinese foreign interference network.
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