Cities and police services across Ontario say they are following the federal government's lead in banning TikTok from work and government-owned devices.
The City of Toronto says it has not decided whether to restrict the application on city-issued mobile devices but is actively monitoring for cybersecurity risks. A spokesperson for Hamilton said the city located on the western tip of Lake Ontario has kept its official TikTok account but removed the application from about 40 city-owned devices.
"We maintain a Service TikTok account as an engagement tool to be able to share public safety information as well as investigative information, while requesting community assistance," said Stephanie SabourinΓÇï, a spokesperson for the city located in the Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario. "If you're at the provincial level or the municipal level, and you haven't followed suit, then the accusation can be raised that somehow you're soft on security or soft on privacy issues," he said in a phone interview.
"I'm not sure what the city government may necessarily be concerned with but maybe a data breach there could potentially have some sort of gain for an institution that would be partaking in espionage somehow. It depends on the type of data that they would have access to.
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