TikTok has come under significant scrutiny and criticism worldwide over data privacy concerns, national security, inappropriate and potentially harmful content, and intellectual and copyright issues. In 2020, India became one of the first countries to implement a ban on the TikTok app. Since then, many countries, including Canada, have imposed government restrictions.

I’m Kym Geddes, and in this episode of 1Click2CyberChaos, Jeff Musson and I ask:

Why are we giving up our data so freely to TikTok, and why should we care?

We talk with tech analyst Carmi Levy who believes all of us should be questioning where our data is going. Cyber security and technology expert Ritesh Kotak takes this line of questioning further and says we should be asking how we take ownership of our data.

Join us every other week as we take you through 1Click2CyberChaos.

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