The European Data Protection Board has fined a Chinese social network for violating the privacy of EU children.
Chinese platform TikTok has been fined €345 million for violating privacy laws when processing children’s personal data in the European Union. Reuters reported this on September 15, citing the EU regulator.
In a statement, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said the social network violated several EU privacy laws between July 31, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
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TikTok’s violations included that accounts for users under 16 were set to “public” by default and that the social network did not check whether the user was actually the child’s father or guardian when communicating via the “couple” function.
This is the first time that TikTok, owned by China’s ByteDance, has received a fine from the DPC, the EU’s top regulator for many of the world’s leading tech firms, over the location of their regional headquarters in Ireland .
A TikTok spokesperson said the company does not agree with the decision, particularly the size of the fine, and that much of the criticism is no longer relevant as a result of actions taken by the company before the DPC’s review began in September 2021.
In November 2020, TikTok added stricter parental controls for couples. And in January 2021, it changed the default settings for all registered users under 16 to “private.”
The DPC has given TikTok three months to comply with all its processes.
We remind you that TikTok has previously been fined almost $16 million in the UK. Chinese program used children’s personal data without parental consent.
Source: korrespondent
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