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Children's personal data, a heavy EU fine for TikTok

2023-09-16 16:19:32Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Children's personal data, a heavy EU fine for TikTok
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TikTok has been fined 345 million euros for violating privacy laws related to the processing of children's personal data in the EU, the main regulator in the European Union announced on Friday.

The Chinese-owned short video platform, which has rapidly grown in popularity with teenagers around the world, breached a number of EU privacy laws between July 31, 2020 and December 31, 2020, the Defense Commission said in a statement. Data Corporation of Ireland (DPC).

This is the first time that the DPC, the EU's main regulator for many important global technology companies, has fined ByteDance-owned TikTok.

Numerous global companies have chosen Ireland as a regional hub, so the DPC is one of the key regulators.

A TikTok spokesperson announced that it disagreed with the decision, particularly the amount of the fine, and that most of the criticism was no longer relevant due to the measures TikTok had put in place before the DPC's investigation began in September 2021.

Stricter parental controls

The DPC alleges that, among other things, in 2020 TikTok made the accounts of users under the age of 16 "public" by default and that TikTok did not verify whether the user was actually the child's parent or guardian when linking the account.

TikTok added stricter parental controls to family pairing in November 2020 and changed the default setting for all registered users under 16 to "private" in January 2021.

TikTok said Friday that it plans to further update its privacy settings to make the distinction between public and private accounts clearer, and that a private account will be the default setting for young users ages 16 to 17 when they later register for the application, which will be presented this month.

The DPC has given TikTok three months to comply with the decision.


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