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Privacy commissioners find TikTok collected sensitive data from Canadian children
The investigation found TikTok collected personal data from over 500,000 Canadian children under 13 despite age restrictions, prompting commitments to improve age verification and privacy disclosures.
- On Tuesday, privacy commissioners said a joint investigation found TikTok collected data from hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under 13, despite platform claims. Federal Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne stated, 'Youth may be less aware of privacy risks, and susceptible to the techniques used to capture their attention.'
- Privacy commissioners launched the review in 2023 to probe TikTok’s compliance and found age checks relied on voluntary gates and moderation despite 500,000 annual underage removals.
- The probe shows profiling increases youth exposure to age-inappropriate content and risky ads, as TikTok used biometric data and sensitive attributes to target Canadian children and youth.
- TikTok agreed to enhance age checks and clarify privacy practices, strengthen age-assurance, expand English and French communications, and limit advertiser targeting for users under 18 to broad categories, while legally challenging last year's Canadian federal government dissolution order.
- The commissioners said they will keep monitoring TikTok’s compliance with recommendations as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada continues oversight affecting 14 million Canadian users.
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TikTok accused of collecting personal data on thousands of Canadian children
The review determined that TikTok's safeguards for keeping underage users off the platform were inadequate, leading to the collection of data from a large number of Canadian children. Regulators concluded that TikTok amassed information considered particularly sensitive, including biometric data such as facial and voice recognition details, as well as...Read Entire Article
TikTok has been collecting the personal information of Canadian children, investigation finds
Joint investigation into TikTok by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia, and Alberta has found that TikTok has been collecting sensitive information of hundreds of thousands of young Canadian users.
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