{"id":151704,"date":"2023-04-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/?p=916211"},"modified":"2023-04-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T00:00:00","slug":"britains-data-watchdog-fines-tiktok-12-7-million-for-misusing-childrens-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/2023\/04\/04\/britains-data-watchdog-fines-tiktok-12-7-million-for-misusing-childrens-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain\u2019s data watchdog fines TikTok \u00a312.7-million for misusing children\u2019s data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/wp-content\/uploads\/mediaintelasia-logo-blackyellow-400x300-1.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" alt=\"MediaIntel.Asia\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Britain\u2019s data watchdog said on Tuesday it had fined TikTok \u00a312.7-million ($15.9-million) for breaching data protection law including by using the personal data of children aged under 13 without parental consent.<br \/>\nThe Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) estimated that TikTok allowed as many as 1.4 million U.K. children under 13 to use its platform in 2020, even though it sets 13 as the minimum age to create an account.<br \/>\nThe ICO said the data breaches occurred between May 2018 and July 2020, with the Chinese-owned video app not having done enough to check who was using the platform and remove the underage children who were.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are laws in place to make sure our children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world. TikTok did not abide by those laws,\u201d U.K. Information Commissioner John Edwards said.<br \/>\nChildren\u2019s data may have been used to track and profile them, potentially presenting them with harmful or inappropriate content, he added.<br \/>\nA TikTok spokesperson said the company disagreed with the ICO\u2019s decision but was pleased the fine had been reduced from the possible \u00a327-million set out by the ICO last year.<br \/>\n\u201cWe invest heavily to help keep under 13s off the platform and our 40,000 strong safety team works around the clock to help keep the platform safe for our community,\u201d the spokesperson said.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will continue to review the decision and are considering next steps.\u201d<br \/>\nThe ICO\u2019s fine follows moves by Western governments and institutions in recent weeks, including Britain, to bar usage of TikTok on official devices over security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>This data comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaintel.asia\/\" title=\"MediaIntel.Asia provides Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring in Asia\" >MediaIntel.Asia's Media Intelligence and Media Monitoring Platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s data watchdog said on Tuesday it had fined TikTok \u00a312.7-million ($15.9-million) for breaching data protection law including by using the personal data of children aged under 13 without parental consent.<br \/>\nThe Information Commissioner\u2019s Office &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,222,465],"tags":[8493,10309,3472,10315,10310,3402],"class_list":["post-151704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chinese-law","category-online-video","category-social-media","tag-britain","tag-bytedance","tag-chinese","tag-media-intelligence","tag-tiktok","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151704"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151705,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151704\/revisions\/151705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chinalegalblog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}