{"id":317918,"date":"2022-12-15T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/canadas-electronic-spy-agency-watching-tiktok-very-carefully-trudeau-says.html"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:41:48","slug":"canadas-electronic-spy-agency-watching-tiktok-very-carefully-trudeau-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/canadas-electronic-spy-agency-watching-tiktok-very-carefully-trudeau-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s electronic spy agency watching TikTok &#8216;very carefully,&#8217; Trudeau says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s electronic spy agency is watching out for security threats from\u00a0the\u00a0popular Chinese-owned social media app TikTok, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to questions from reporters in a pre-cabinet scrum on Parliament Hill, Trudeau said the Communications Security Establishment, Canada&#8217;s foreign signals intelligence agency,\u00a0is keeping an eye on\u00a0TikTok as Republican lawmakers move to ban the app in the U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><em><strong><em><strong>Have a question or something to say? Email: ask@cbc.ca or join us live in the comments now.<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I think people are concerned about TikTok. I think people are obviously watching very carefully,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The &#8230; CSE is one of the best cyber security agencies in the world and they&#8217;re watching very carefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH\u00a0| <em>CSE watching\u00a0social media &#8216;carefully&#8217; for foreign threats, Trudeau says<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mediaEmbed\"><span class=\"media-caption\">As U.S. lawmakers voice national security concerns over TikTok, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the government continues to monitor social media channels to protect Canadians.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>U.S. moves to ban TikTok<\/h2>\n<p>Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><u>announced bipartisan legislation<\/u><\/a> to ban the app, which reaches more than one billion users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation responds to growing concerns in the U.S. that TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. could use the app\u00a0to spy on or censure Americans.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio&#8217;s bill would block all transactions from any social media company in, or under the influence of, China and Russia, the senator&#8217;s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would be an expansion of existing American laws restricting access to TikTok. The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a bill in August\u00a02020 banning federal employees from using the app on government-issued devices.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for TikTok\u00a0said the company&#8217;s U.S.\u00a0security plans were\u00a0developed under the oversight of\u00a0top American\u00a0national security agencies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is troubling that rather than encouraging the Administration to conclude its national security review of TikTok, some members of Congress have decided to push for a politically-motivated ban that will do nothing to advance the national security of the United States,&#8221; the\u00a0spokesperson said in an email.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0spokesperson said\u00a0TikTok\u00a0has never provided Canadian user data to the Chinese government and would not if it were asked to do so. Canadian user data is stored\u00a0in data centres in the U.S. and Singapore, the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>NDP ethics critic\u00a0Matthew Green said in an email to CBC the party believes Canada has fallen\u00a0behind its European counterparts on\u00a0data protection. He did not call for a ban on TikTok for federal employees&#8217; devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While New Democrats don&#8217;t think a ban on TikTok should be dismissed outright,\u00a0the government needs to take the first steps to introduce better regulation and work side by side with our allies on data protection,&#8221; Green said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"imageMedia image full\"><figcaption class=\"image-caption\">NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has a large following on TikTok.<!-- --> <!-- -->(Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NDP\u00a0Leader Jagmeet Singh\u00a0has nearly 900 thousand followers on TikTok and routinely uses the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Trudeau also\u00a0responded to a\u00a0question about the risk of Chinese infiltration of Canadian government accounts on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>He said the government is &#8220;watching what the Americans are doing&#8221; regarding\u00a0the U.S.-based social media giant, which has been under intense scrutiny since billionaire Elon Musk completed his purchase of\u00a0the company in October.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/tiktok-china-trudeau-1.6687045?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canada&#8217;s electronic spy agency is watching out for security threats from\u00a0the\u00a0popular 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&#8217;s foreign signals intelligence agency,\u00a0is keeping an eye on\u00a0TikTok as Republican lawmakers move to ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-317918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}