{"id":526466,"date":"2026-03-10T09:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:13:11","slug":"tiktok-allowed-to-keep-business-in-canada-under-new-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/526466\/","title":{"rendered":"TikTok allowed to keep business in Canada under new rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 2 minutes<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government\u00a0said on Monday that it will let TikTok continue to operate in\u00a0Canada and allow an investment by the tech \u200cplatform to proceed, after a national security review reversed the conclusion of a previous one.<\/p>\n<p>The approval is subject to new legally binding undertakings\u00a0provided by TikTok Canada, Industry Minister M\u00e9lanie Joly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/innovation-science-economic-development\/news\/2026\/03\/minister-jolys-statement-on-the-outcome-of-the-further-national-security-review-of-tiktok-technology-canada-inc-under-the-investment-canada-act.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Further, this decision \u200bwill protect Canadian jobs, ensuring\u00a0that TikTok Canada \u200bmaintains a physical presence in Canada, with\u00a0commitments to invest in its cultural sector,&#8221; Joly\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2024, Canada&#8217;s \u200bIndustry Ministry had ordered TikTok&#8217;s business be dissolved, citing national \u2060security risks.<\/p>\n<p>But Canada&#8217;s \u2060federal court in January overturned \u200cthe\u00a0government order, allowing the short-video app to keep\u00a0operating, and told Ottawa to review the case. The Industry\u00a0Ministry said at the time that Joly would conduct a national\u00a0security review.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok also acknowledged the \u2060undertakings and said on Monday\u00a0it had reached an agreement with Canada&#8217;s government that will\u00a0keep its local operations in place.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Breaking down the U.S. TikTok deal:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770467649_318_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Fact check: Is the U.S. now controlling what\u2019s posted on TikTok?<\/p>\n<p>After a deal was reached to keep TikTok operating in the U.S., some users accused the app of censoring their posts. CBC\u2019s fact-check team breaks down the facts about the deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to investing in new and returning programs that support the thriving ecosystem of Canadian creators, artists and small businesses,&#8221; a spokesperson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.tiktok.com\/tiktok-canada-reaches-agreement-with-the-government-of-canada?lang=en-CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The platform will implement enhanced protection \u200cfor\u00a0Canadians&#8217; personal information, including new security gateways\u00a0and privacy-enhancing technologies to control access to Canadian\u00a0user data, Joly said.<\/p>\n<p>She also said \u200bTikTok will implement enhanced protections for\u00a0minors, and an independent third-party monitor will be appointed to\u00a0audit and continuously \u2060verify data access controls.<\/p>\n<p>Canada and other nations have been scrutinizing TikTok\u00a0 because of concerns China could use \u200bthe app to \u2060harvest users&#8217;\u00a0data or advance its interests. TikTok is owned by Chinese\u00a0company ByteDance.<\/p>\n<p>Last September, TikTok agreed to improve its measures to\u00a0 keep children off its Canadian website and app after an investigation found its efforts to block children and protect personal \u2060information were inadequate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-526466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}