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Updated: Profectio reached out to TikTok , a spokesperson responded back saying “Shutting down TikTok’s Canadian offices and destroying hundreds of well-paying local jobs is not in anyone’s best interest, and today’s shutdown order will do just that. We will challenge this order in court. The TikTok platform will remain available for creators to find an audience, explore new interests and for businesses to thrive.”
The Canadian government is ordering the dissolution of TikTok Technology Canada, the local branch of the app’s owner, ByteDance, following a national security review.
The announcement states that this action will not prevent Canadians from accessing the TikTok app.
TikTok’s Canadian operations have offices in Toronto and Vancouver, now have to “wind down,” he said.
The statement emphasized that the government is not preventing Canadians from accessing the app or using it to create content.
In February 2023, the Canadian government banned the social media platform from all government devices.
“The decision was based on the information and evidence collected over the course of the review and on the advice of Canada’s security and intelligence community and other government partners,” Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a media statement on Wednesday.
Months later the Canadian government followed up with a ban on WeChat.
“The decision to use a social media application or platform is a personal choice,” the statement said. “It is important for Canadians to adopt good cyber security practices and assess the possible risks of using social media platforms and applications, including how their information is likely to be protected, managed, used and shared by foreign actors, as well as to be aware of which country’s laws apply.”
TikTok asserts that its servers remain outside of China, making them beyond the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, and it complies with Canadian data protection and privacy laws. Overalll bad news for Joshua Bloom, Head of TikTok Canada.
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