this tuesday, Popular Chinese social network TikTok has been fined $1 million in money in the UK for the “unlawful” use of personal data of minors, according to a statement from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
The UK has fined TikTok £12.7m (€14.4m) for illegally using personal data of minors, In addition to allowing around 1.4 million 13-year-olds to use the platform in 2020, the UK digital watchdog reported.
According to the ICO, TikTok had not implemented appropriate verification processes to identify and terminate accounts of minors, who were not of the required age to be able to use the app despite the fact that some administrators had internal concerns on the matter.
The entity also indicated in the statement that there are laws in the United Kingdom that guarantee children “Be safe in the digital world”something the Chinese social network has not respected, according to the UK’s Information Commissioner, John Edwards.
In addition to this measure, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Canada have banned TikTok on government phones, Having said that the application indicates a cyber security risk is an unacceptable risk.
The decisions they made were due to the fear that the Chinese authorities would have access to the information data “private” Various government officials where the photo and video platform has been banned.
In reality, The European Parliament has ordered all of its employees to remove the Chinese video app from their work devices, thus emulating similar measures in other EU institutions.
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, and the Secretary-General, Alessandro Ciocchetti, have ordered that TikTok not be installed on personal devices, such as mobile phones, tablets or laptops.
In addition, they recommended “for sure” MEPs and their staff must permanently remove the app.
In the same wayThe European Commission and the European Council, which represents the 27 EU member states, ordered a similar ban last Thursday on cybersecurity grounds.
The first such action was taken in 2020 in India, which has banned several Chinese apps after clashes over the disputed border between the two Asian giants.
Chinese company ByteDance TikTok’s parent company has been questioned by several Western countries who suspect Chinese authorities had access to user data.
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