Canada bans China’s Wechat from government devices citing security risks

Canada has banned Chinese super-app WeChat on official government devices citing cybersecurity risks, following similar action taken against short-form video app TikTok earlier this year. The latest ban, announced on Monday and effective the same day, was also imposed on applications from Kaspersky Lab, a Russian maker of antivirus programs. Canada’s chief information officer had determined that “WeChat and [the] Kaspersky suite of applications present an unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security,” the Treasury Board of Canada, which oversees public administration, said in a statement. On a mobile...