TikTok kept letting strangers create accounts with my email, so I filed PIPEDA and CASL complaints

Disclaimer This is a personal account of how I, a non-lawyer Canadian resident, used PIPEDA and CASL to address a privacy issue with TikTok. It is not legal advice. Procedures, deadlines, and applicable laws change. If you are facing a similar situation, please verify everything against current OPC and CRTC guidance, and consider consulting a lawyer for matters with significant legal or financial stakes. Parts of the research and drafting in this article were done with the help of an LLM. I reviewed the output, but factual errors are still possible. Please check the primary sources I link to before acting on anything here. TL;DR TikTok accounts I never created kept showing up under my email address. The first one was @chezou2. After it was deleted, a different handle appeared. TikTok lets people register accounts without verifying that they control the email address. This is a structural failure to obtain consent. TikTok Support eventually deleted the first account after I escalated.…