TikTok is going through a possible tremendous within the European Union amounting to hundreds of thousands of {dollars} as a consequence of a violation of kids’s privateness, as declared by the bloc’s knowledge safety regulator.
The European Knowledge Safety Board has issued a definitive verdict relating to the Chinese language-owned video-sharing platform’s dealing with of kids’s knowledge.
Following TikTok’s authorized objections to a earlier ruling in Eire, the place the corporate’s European headquarters are positioned, the regulator has taken a decisive “dispute resolution decision.”
The tremendous is predicted to be issued throughout the subsequent 4 weeks.
The ruling stems from an investigation launched in 2021 by the info safety commissioner in Eire and assessed TikTok’s adherence to EU knowledge safety rules and its practices associated to the info of people aged 13-17.
In accordance with the EU’s Digital Providers Act, main on-line platforms together with TikTok, Google and Fb will probably be obligated to watch and take away illicit content material from their platforms, disallow particular promoting strategies and collaborate with authorities by sharing knowledge.
Beforehand, the UK’s knowledge regulatory physique imposed a tremendous of £12.7 million (over $16 million) on TikTok, a results of the platform’s unauthorized dealing with of knowledge from 1.four million kids beneath the age of 13 who had utilized the platform with out acquiring parental consent.
