SC Media reports:
TikTok was found by Canadian privacy authorities to have implemented inadequate data protections for children accessing its platform, according to Reuters.
Aside from failing to adopt mechanisms that would prevent access to individuals younger than 13, TikTok has also obtained excessive data from its child users and then leveraged it for online marketing and content targeting, a joint probe from Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne and Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec privacy protection authorities showed.
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The Joint Investigation report by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec, Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia, and the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Alberta can be found at https://www.oipc.bc.ca/documents/investigation-reports/3018.