TikTok made ‘inadequate’ efforts to protect children, federal investigation finds

A joint investigation by federal and provincial privacy authorities has found that TikTok’s efforts to keep Canadian children off its app and to prevent the collection and use of sensitive personal information were “inadequate.”

The joint investigation found that hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under the age of 13 were able to access the platform, and that the app collected and used their personal data for targeting ads and recommending content.