The federal government’s move to ban TikTok on its phones should make companies think twice about their data policies and consider blocking the app on its own devices, academics say., along with an investigation into the company launched last week by a group of Canadian privacy commissioners, should be enough to push companies into thinking critically about social media.
“Given the Chinese government’s track record of collecting secret information, if I was running an enterprise … I would certainly be advising my employees not to have this installed on their own devices,” said Brett Caraway, a professor of media economics at the University of Toronto. Whether companies require employees to remove TikTok from their phones should depend on the nature of their business and the amount of sensitive information staff would handle on those devices, said Sam Andrey, director of policy and research at the Leadership Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University.
In announcing the ban, Treasury Board President Mona Fortier offered only “an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security” as the reason.
The work at home mentality is easy pickings for hacking and espionage. Few understand the risk factor because the high tech world is loosing its common sense factor.
I don't agree with limited information is against our freedom of speech,