Matthew Green at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On November 27th, 2023. See this statement in context.

November 27th, 2023 / 4:05 p.m.

NDP

Matthew Green NDP Hamilton Centre, ON

I want to go back to that point to be clear, though.

Regardless of where these companies originate from, when they sell to third parties there's still a likelihood—if not a high probability—that the same sensitive information that's being harvested by TikTok via ByteDance and Chinese state-owned companies could still end up in the hands of oppressive regimes to get information on their citizens—to get information on the diaspora, on dissidents, on people who might not share the same opinions as these authoritarian regimes. Is that not correct, whether it's Instagram, Facebook or X?

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