TikTok in Breach of Canadian Privacy Law Over Children’s Data
From the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, a press news was issued on Tuesday, September 23, 2025, regarding an investigation carried out by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Philippe Dufresine, and provincial counterparts in Quebec, British Columbia and Alberta into tiktok.
The investigation revealed that despite tiktok minimum age requirement of 13, hundreds of thousands of Canadian children under the age of 13 are present in the platform, and that tiktok has been collecting and using their personal information for profiling and targeting purposes, which can be of significant impact on children's well-being
The Commissioner concluded that TikTok failed to obtain consent for the collection and using of user data, especially that of younger children and adequately explain it's data practices, as required by the Canadian privacy.
Tiktok responded to the findings and agreed to stop allowing advertisers to target users below the age of 18, and also to expand its privacy information available to Canada users.
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