Chinese social media app TikTok is reportedly facing a $29 million swipe after the Information Commission Office found TikTok temporarily violated UK data protection law without processing personal data between May 2018 and July 2020. little children.
CNBC reported that TikTok could face a £27m ($29m) fine in the UK after privacy regulators found the company failed to use children’s data in an acceptable way. The Information Commissioner’s Office has sent TikTok a “statement of intent” giving the company its “preliminary opinion that TikTok violated UK data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020”.
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The ICO claims that TikTok processes data from children under the age of 13 without parental consent, does not provide information to its users in an easy-to-understand format, and processes “special category data” that includes information about a person’s race or ethnicity. has no legal basis.
Information Commissioner John Edwards said this week: “We all want children to learn and experience the digital world, but with adequate data privacy protection. Digital services companies have a legal obligation to enforce these measures, but in our preliminary view, TikTok is not meeting this requirement.”
TikTok has 30 days to respond to the decision, and if company officials can provide the right safeguards for children’s processing of their data, the ICO could reduce its fine.
A TikTok spokesperson told CNBC: “While we respect the ICO’s role in protecting privacy in the UK, we do not agree with previous views expressed and plan to respond formally to the ICO when the time comes.”
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Source: Breitbart
