Britain fined a network "Tik Tok" Worth about $15 million due to illegal use of children’s data.
The authority responsible for the digital sector in Britain (ICO) said today, Tuesday, that Ali was fined "Tik Tok" owned by a Chinese company, a fine of 12.7 million pounds ($ 15.63 million), for the use of "illegal" of personal data belonging to children, according to what was stated in a statement, according to Agence France-Presse.
The authority considered that the TikTok application, on whose use restrictions were recently imposed in several countries around the world, allowed up to one million and four hundred thousand children under the age of 13 in Britain to open an account on its platform in 2020, contrary to its official rules, also pointing to the use of their private data. without the consent of their parents.
The British authority’s investigation revealed that TikTok was not conducted "Proper verification processes to verify children’s accounts" Underage and"cancel it"At a time when some managers expressed concerns through internal channels in this regard, according to the statement.
The British Commissioner for Information Affairs, John Edwards, indicated in statements mentioned in the statement that "There are laws in place in Britain to make sure our children are safe in the digital world" And"Tik Tok did not respect it".
The White House, the European Commission, and the Canadian, British, and Australian governments recently banned civil servants in these countries from using TikTok on their professional phones. The Norwegian Parliament took a similar measure last year, as did the Swedish army.
