TikTok under investigation, this time by the Canadian privacy authorities!
Canadian privacy regulators have launched an investigation into TikTok over its collection of user data.
The video-sharing platform, owned by Chinese giant ByteDance, has come under scrutiny over concerns that it provides information to Beijing.
Canada’s move comes after European Commission staff were ordered to remove the application to “protect” the institution. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said it had launched the investigation into TikTok along with provincial privacy regulators from Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta.
The investigation was launched “in the wake of now-settled class action lawsuits in the United States and Canada, as well as numerous media reports regarding TikTok’s collection, use and disclosure of personal information,” it said in a statement. The measure aims to determine whether the organization’s practices comply with Canadian privacy legislation.” They will examine whether the company is meeting its transparency obligations.
