TikTok fined 345 million euros for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

According to the Irish data regulator, among other violations, the site placed the accounts of 13- to 17-year-old users to the default public option.

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TikTok has been accused of repeated violations of GDPR legislation in the European Union.

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TikTok was found to have violated GDPR by defaulting kid users' accounts to public.

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provide transparent information to minor users; letting an adult to access a child's account via the "family pairing" feature to permit over-16 direct messaging

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The DPC decided that TikTok, which has a minimum user age of 13, failed to adequately consider the risk posed to minor users who got access to the platform.

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The DPC judgment comes after the UK data authority penalised TikTok £12.7 million in April for illegally processing the data of 1.4 million youngsters.

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TikTok stated that the examination looked at the company's privacy settings between July 31 and December 31, 2020, and that it has remedied the issues.

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