While fortunes for TikTok may be brightening in the U.S., there are other parts of the world where the company has several cybersecurity and foreign interference concerns.

The Canadian government issued an order this week forcing TikTok to dissolve its business in Canada citing national security risks.

"As explained by Canadian Innovation Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne:

The government of Canada has ordered TikTok Canada, so the operations of TikTok, the offices that they have in Vancouver and in Toronto, to be disbanded, what's important for Canadians to know, we're talking about the operations [of TikTok], not the application. The application of TikTok will be available to Canadians as they want."

So, on one hand, Canada is not going as far as the U.S. in pushing for a full sell-off of the app to separate it from its Chinese ownership, while the app won't be banned for regular users.

But Canada is forcing TikTok staff out of the nation, due to unspecified national security concerns:

It was our consideration in terms of the protection of the national security of Canada, basing our rationale on the analysis that we conducted with our security services, and we came to the conclusion that these activities that were conducted that were conducted in Canada by TikTok at their offices would be injurious to national security.

Canadian officials haven't unveiled any information on the infractions that TikTok has committed, and this also would be considered sensitive by national security. The reason here is that the Canadian Government has an issue with the way TikTok has operated itself apparently based on the information going back to its Chinese motherland, and not based on respect for the information being disseminated to the Canadians through the app.

Canada barred TikTok from all government devices at the beginning of last year, joining several other countries which have raised alarms over alleged spying activities. Back then, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that this "may be the first step" toward working to protect Canadians from any potential risk through the app, presenting an "unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security.".

Though again, Canadian officials have been mum about the specifics of the risks faced in this regard. U.S. officials have also shared very little information concerning the specifics of TikTok's national security risk, much of the information having either redaction and/or held back to protect the integrity of their investigations.

But the bottom line is that Canadian officials, just like those in many other countries, have an issue with the way TikTok may be sharing user data coming from this country back to its Chinese homeland. Now, however, this would not stop TikTok from doing this; it simply removes TikTok's own staff from that nation.

Which, again, sounds somewhat redundant or perhaps the risks at stake aren't clear enough for anyone to make sense of this very step.

Meanwhile, TikTok Canada claims it will battle the move in court in a quest to stay in the country.

 "The TikTok platform will remain available for creators to find an audience, explore new interests and for businesses to thrive."

It's sort of a weird move, actually, in that the action taken was to strip the region of TikTok staff, but not the app itself.

Is this to say that staff at TikTok were based in Canada and working to find vulnerabilities to the systems in Canada from their Canadian office? Were they looking to influence local businesses or officials directly?

And if that's the case, why can't they do that from somewhere else?

That still stands as another challenge to its success, along with it still having a sell-off bill in the U.S., which could potentially be reversed by President Elect Donald Trump.

But with this, TikTok is to face similar problems in some other regions as well.