OTTAWA–Four Canadian privacy watchdogs say TikTok failed to fully bar underage users from its platform, resulting in the video-sharing app collecting personal data — including sensitive information — from “a large number of Canadian children.”

“The investigation uncovered that TikTok removes approximately 500,000 underage users from the platform each year. Where these children were engaging with the platform before being removed, TikTok was already collecting, inferring and using information about them to serve them targeted ads and recommend tailored content to them,” a long-awaited report from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne, along with his provincial counterparts in Alberta, Quebec and British Columbia, concluded Tuesday.

“Recognizing the significant gaps that we obser

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