Information & Ethics committee  I want to make a clarification. We don't view content because we don't have the mandate to do so. The role and mandate of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security is to protect infrastructure and not to check content. Clearly, we're concerned with infrastructure security, but also

Information & Ethics committee  Unfortunately, I don't remember the date. I apologize.

Information & Ethics committee  On TikTok, just in case it didn't come out clearly, it presents an unacceptable level of risk. That's why the application was banned.

Information & Ethics committee  Many apps that we have on our government phones are apps for which the level of risk is acceptable. In our advice and guidance on what we put on our government phones, we look at a number of things, like security control and who is behind the app.

Information & Ethics committee  It's been 32 years.

Information & Ethics committee  I was at CSE. I wasn't in my current role, but I was at CSE.

Information & Ethics committee  I wasn't in a position where that was my task.

Information & Ethics committee  I'm not aware of that.

Information & Ethics committee  No, I'm not aware of that.

Information & Ethics committee  In our role at the cyber centre, we want to make sure that we expose the threats and that we educate Canadians and Canadian organizations about the threats. We invite them to ask themselves the questions of how to protect—

Information & Ethics committee  We definitely factor all of that into our threat assessment, but when we put out our advice and guidance, we pose a set of questions that we encourage Canadians and Canadian organizations, individually, to—

Information & Ethics committee  Thank you. As my colleague just said, education is extremely important in keeping young people informed. In reality, it's clear that China raises somewhat more complex concerns. Any information we put in the public domain could ultimately be a source of concern. It's important

Information & Ethics committee  Yes.

Information & Ethics committee  We are not a regulator and we don't assess every app out there. Our advice is how to consider the risk, from a privacy perspective, of the permissive settings that the app is requesting. Along with the ban of TikTok, we also put out some advice and guidance on social media appli

Information & Ethics committee  Informing Canadians of what it is they are signing up for is absolutely important. We can describe it through our cybersecurity advice and guidance, but if it's also explained in individual apps in such a language that users understand exactly what they're consenting to sharing a