Matt Malone

Since its launch in 2017, TikTok has become an enormously popular app in Canada — and the source of many privacy and security concerns. Recently, the Canadian federal government restricted the operation of TikTok Technology Canada Inc., based on the findings of an undisclosed national security review taken under the auspices of the Investment Canada Act, while still permitting the app run by TikTok Pte. Ltd. to collect, use and analyze Canadians’ data.

History offers a lesson on the importance of drafting regulations that can evolve. The tragedy of the RMS Titanic was not that the ship had too few lifeboats; it was that it had more than the law required. After the ship sank in April 1912, the official British post-mortem report laid much of the blame on weak regulation. The ship had been built to code, but the code in question, the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, only required lifeboats based on tonnage, not passenger count.

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