Wednesday, September 27, 2023
TikTok Fined
From CNN:
A major European tech regulator has ordered TikTok to pay a €345 million ($368 million) fine after ruling that the app failed to do enough to protect children.
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which oversees TikTok’s activities in the European Union, said Friday that the company had violated the bloc’s signature privacy law.
An investigation by the DPC found that in the latter half of 2020, TikTok’s default settings didn’t do enough to protect children’s accounts. For example, it said, newly-created children’s profiles were set to public by default, meaning anybody on the internet could view them.
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https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/family_law/2023/09/from-cnn-a-major-european-tech-regulator-has-ordered-tiktok-to-pay-a-345-million-368-million-fine-after-ruling-that-t.html
