2y ago

TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU

www.theguardian.com

TikTok to be fined for breaching children’s privacy in EU::Action by regulator follows £12.7m fine by UK for illegally processing data of 1.4m children under 13

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So the annual cost of advertising is a little over 1k/child?
- The illegal activity in question is not implementing stricter measures of preventing under 13 year olds of using the service without a parent's consent. I really wonder how it's possible to verify a kid's parent's consent in the first place. I guess Facebook and others manage to do that but I have no idea how.
  
  I guess Facebook and others manage to do that but I have no idea how.
  No. They just managed not to get sued properly (so far).
TikTok should be banned in all the civilized world.
- I'd agree with that if the ban includes all social media owned by big corporations
  
  YES!
My understanding is that you have to state your age is at least 13 years of age to create a tiktok account, meaning these kids were lying about their age to create an account… right?
I’m not defending tiktok, but am also confused how this aspect or the “lack of parental consent”mentioned in the article ends up being TikTok’s responsibility.
I did read the article, I’m just confused about those aspects.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
TikTok is to be fined potentially millions of pounds for breaching children’s privacy after a ruling by EU data protection regulator.
The regulator had “adopted a dispute resolution decision” after Tiktok submitted legal objections to an earlier ruling in Ireland, home of the company’s European headquarters.
After TikTok agreed to a voluntary “stress test” in its Dublin HQ last month, the EU technology commissioner, Thierry Breton, said the company needed to do more work to be fully compliant.
On Friday, the company said new measures it had taken to comply with the DSA included: making it easier for EU users to report illegal content; allowing them to turn off personalised recommendations for videos; and removing targeted advertising for users aged 13 to 17.
The British information commissioner said the company had done “very little, if anything” to check who was using the platform and remove underage users, despite having received internal warnings that it was flouting its own terms and conditions.
A 2022 survey by the UK regulator Ofcom showed that more than 60% of eight- to 17-year-olds who use social media had a TikTok account in their own name.
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Ah a fine? Oh surely they will learn a lesson from this hefty fine and never do such a thing again.

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