Canadian security officials are trying to dissuade Canadians from using TikTok by telling users that their data is “available to the Chinese government.”
In an interview with CBC News scheduled to air on Saturday, David Vigneault, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, said, “There is a very clear strategy on the part of the Chinese government…to be able to obtain personal information.” said. From all over the world,” he told CBC I will report it.
“They are using big data analytics, they have amazing computer farms processing the data, and they are developing artificial intelligence based on the use of this data,” Vigneault added.
The Chinese government's access to user data is at the forefront of U.S. efforts to regulate and in some cases ban apps. Congress passed a bill in April that would ban TikTok unless it divested from its Beijing-based parent company ByteDance. TikTok sued the U.S. government in May over the law, arguing that the impending ban was unconstitutional.
TikTok has previously claimed that its staff in China cannot access user data in the United States or Europe. The company has embarked on two major corporate restructuring efforts (Project Texas and Project Clover, referring to the U.S. and European efforts, respectively) to isolate user data from China.U.S. user data is hosted on Oracle's cloud infrastructure and is not supposed to be accessible outside the U.S., although recent reports indicate that luck It suggested that U.S. efforts to protect user data were “largely superficial.”
“These claims are not supported by evidence, and the fact is that TikTok has never shared Canadian user data with the Chinese government and would not do so if asked to do so,” TikTok spokesperson Daniel Morgan said. he said. The Verge.
