The Saskatchewan government ultimately decided on Wednesday to ban the TikTok app from all government-owned devices pending the results of the federal threat assessment skpoli
TikTok 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.Saskatchewan’s Information and Privacy Commissioner has asked staff in his office to remove the social media app TikTok from their work phones while the platform is under investigation by the federal privacy commissioner.
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