Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Samantha Edwards
Publication Date: September 23, 2025 - 14:20
TikTok made ‘inadequate’ efforts to protect children, federal investigation finds
September 23, 2025
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.
Unpublished Newswire
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“A dollar a day keeps the doctor away,” Pika, one of my girls, said as she nibbled an afternoon snack at the kitchen table.
I wondered at the way she had mangled the “apple a day” aphorism. The original, “Eat an apple on going to bed and you’ll keep the doctor from earning his bread,” came from Wales. It took a day before I could ask Pika about the origin of her saying.
She had picked up her dollar-centric version from classmates: “That’s what they all say!”
Like generations before, Pika and her peers are dazzled by the glitter of consumerist culture. Today, they are hyperaware of not...
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