Tiktok social network, which has hundreds of thousands of minor users in Canada, does not take sufficient measures to comply with age limitations and collects confidential personal data of many children.
This is stated in the report published by the Canadian government in relation to Tiktok, which has long been closely attention due to data security and data security and data security problems Its possible transmission or closure is discussed.
The report states that it was checked by the compliance of the methods of collecting and using personal Tiktok data to personalize content and advertising to Canadian laws on confidentiality protection.
hundreds of thousands of minors of Canada use this social network, but the platform does not provide proper compliance with age restrictions, established in many provinces for children under 13 years of age.
“, due to insufficient measures to ensure age security, Tiktok has collected personal data of the many Canadian children, including confidential information,” the document emphasizes. Every year, Tiktok blocks about 500 thousand minor users, but due to the imperfection of mechanisms for determining age, probably a significant number of children are unnoticed.