Data Protection Commissioner imposes €345m fine on Chinese-owned company for privacy breaches
“The decision further details that non-child users had the power to enable direct messages for child users above the age of 16, thereby making this feature less strict for the child user,” said Ms Dixon’s office.
Even though TikTok requires all users to be aged 13 and above, the report cited a “particularly high number of users” below that age and said pre-teens entering ages above 13, 16 or 18 gained access to app settings for such ages.The company “did not properly take into account” the risks posed to pre-teens who gained access by the default account setting, allowing anyone on or off TikTok to view content they posted.
The ruling met a frosty response from TikTok. “We respectfully disagree with the decision, particularly the level of the fine imposed,” said the company. “The DPC’s criticisms are focused on features and settings that were in place three years ago, and that we made changes to well before the investigation even began, such as setting all under-16 accounts to private by default.
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