Reasearcher Joel Reardon is finding more and more data, including location information, is being sent to data brokers and third parties, often far beyond Canadian borders.

The Trump administration's move to ban the popular app over cyber security concerns has since raised the same question for their neighbours north of the border.

The federal privacy commissioner is calling on tech giants to make it mandatory for app developers to post details of their privacy polices prior to download if the app collects any information from the user.