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After a 2024 decision to ban TikTok in Canada — shutting down the company's operations but not the app itself — the federal government is now doing a 180. Laura Osman, correspondent for the Logic, explains the timing of the decision, and whether the company's commitments on security and privacy will be enough to satisfy critics of the Chinese-owned social media company.
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