TikTok probably fined £27m in the UK. Popular video-sharing app face damages for breaching UK data protection law by failing to protect children’s privacy.
Rendering to media reports, the UK’s Information Commissioners Office (ICO) has issued a notice of resolved to the social media company. It is a legal document that covers the way for potential fines.
According to the document, amongst May 2018 and July 2020, TikTok apparently forwarded the information of children under the age of 13 without their parents’ consent.
Also suspected that the company failed to provide regular complete, transparent and easy-to-understand information to its customers and sent “special category data” without any legal basis.
Tik Tok a very popular application among young people and used by more than 1 billion people around the world each month.
The app, owned by Beijing-based local company ByteDance, possibly fined up to four percent of TikTok’s yearly revenue by an ICO.
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Information Commissioner John Edwards said: “We all want children to be able to learn and experience the digital world, but with appropriate data privacy protections”.