Privacy Commissioners Find Tiktok Collected Sensitive Data From Children
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Canada's Privacy Commissioners found TikTok collected sensitive data from children, sparking discussion on privacy laws and the need for consistent regulation across social media platforms.
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Just send your face and details to anonymous companies prone to data leaks just to hear songs with naughty words! See Spotify is too dangerous for children!
Post anything about the issues with immigration in the UK? That is straight to jail territory now, and they know just where to find you.
I’m not joking. I want to know what happened to the people that created the British empire. What was at one point the most wealthy and successful nation on the planet. Where are those people?
And while they're at it, they should take a look at the data that Google collects from kids using Chrome and Chromebooks.
So a weak fine that is rolled into cost of doing business expense? AKA nothing.
"Google will only access, use, and otherwise process Customer Data in accordance with the Cloud Data Processing Addendum and will not access, use, or process Customer Data for any other purpose. Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, Google will not process Customer Data for Advertising purposes or serve Advertising in the Services. Google has implemented and will maintain technical, organizational, and physical safeguards to protect Customer Data, as further described in the Cloud Data Processing Addendum."
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/google-hit-with-pri...
But I'm certain there were more similar suits in the USA. I don't think there's been one in Canada.
Some of this is based on Canada's political/judicial system being more similar to international norms. Canada doesn't have the strange state/federal split of the US. Nor does it have the unwritten "constitution" of the UK. So European/Asian countries can more easily translate Canadian policy this into their systems. The IT companies appreciate this too. They will want to strike a deal in Canada because that deal will very likely be mirrored elsewhere. This finding and resulting deals will have great impact.
Gross and appropriate.