JAKARTA - Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) warned Canadians not to use the TikTok video app. He also stated that data obtained from its users "available to the Chinese government," as reported by CBC News on Friday, May 17.
"My answer as director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is that there is a very clear strategy from the Chinese government to be able to obtain personal information from anyone around the world," CSIS Director David Vigneault said in an interview with CBC which will air on Saturday, May 18.
But that statement was immediately denied by the spokesperson for TikTok. "These statements are not supported by evidence, and the fact is that TikTok has never shared Canadian user data with the Chinese government, and we also wouldn't have done it if requested," a TikTok spokesperson said in response to the report.
Canada in September 2023 ordered a national security review of TikTok's proposal to expand the country's short video application business. Vigneault said he would participate in the review and provide advice.
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"We will continue to communicate with Canadian officials and will welcome the opportunity to meet with CSIS to discuss how we protect Canadian privacy and security," a TikTok spokesperson added.
TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, sued in a US federal court this month to block a law signed by US President Joe Biden that would force the disbandment of a short video app used by 170 million Americans or ban it.
The law signed by Biden on April 24 gives Jan. 19, 2025 to ByteDance to sell TikTok or face bans. The White House said it wanted to end China's based holdings on national security but did not ban TikTok.
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