Tiktok News: The United Kingdom’s regulator has fined Chinese-owned video-sharing platform TikTok nearly USD 16 million for violating several ‘data protection laws’ including personal information of children without consent.
The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office fined TikTok US$15.9 million for estimating that more than 1 million children under the age of 13 were allowed to use the video-sharing network in breach of its own policies Was. In 2020, the news agency ANI had given the news quoting CNN.
Earlier on April 4, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) had said that video-sharing platforms had not done enough to look at the age group of viewers accessing their platforms.
Tiktok fined for breaking rules between 2018-20
It also alleged that TikTok also failed to take action to remove underage children and did not properly inform users about how their data was being collected and used. The penalty applies to violations of the rule between May 2018 and July 2020.
UK Information Commissioner John Edwards said, “There are laws in place to make sure your children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world. TikTok didn’t comply with those laws.” He added, “TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better.”
Several countries banned the Chinese-owned video-sharing app
It is worth mentioning here that this fine comes after a bunch of western countries turned their backs on the Chinese-owned video streaming platform. Earlier, Australia, France, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and India initially banned the TikTok app from all devices with access to the country’s parliament until the end of March.
(With ANI inputs)