Is it a reasonable concern of Canadians that their personal information or biometric data could be taken from social media platforms and then used by foreign state actors, hostile foreign governments, to perpetrate intimidation on diaspora communities from those countries?
I want to be specific. There are concerns, which are well known, about the national security law passed by the dictatorship in Beijing that are germane to the company ByteDance, which owns TikTok. This is an issue about a very popular social media app, and people are concerned about the risks to their privacy and personal information. We have seen governments suspend the use of this app on government devices.
How concerned should people be about using this app on their personal devices, or about their children using it on their personal devices?