The popular social media platform failed to obtain meaningful consent to collect and use “vast amounts” of user data, including for young users, according to a two-year joint investigation by the federal privacy commissioner and his provincial counterparts in Quebec, B.C. and Alberta. (The Logic)

Talking point: The platform has agreed to implement all the recommendations in the privacy commissioners’ report, including being more upfront about how it collects and uses data. The privacy commissioner expects to receive monthly progress updates. Last year, the federal government ordered the dissolution of TikTok’s Canadian business following a national security review of Chinese parent company ByteDance. The U.S., meanwhile, reached a deal with ByteDance to transfer its U.S. operations to a majority-American ownership group, which would see U.S. user data stored in a secure cloud managed by Texas-based cloud provider Oracle.