A major social media platform has agreed to pay a record fine after losing its appeal against a UK data watchdog ruling. The company was found to have failed to properly enforce its minimum age requirement of 13, allowing underage users to remain on the service despite inadequate verification measures. Regulators cited insufficient age checks and a lack of effective removal processes for children who signed up below the legal threshold. The penalty follows a 2023 decision by the Information Commissioner’s Office, marking a significant enforcement action over child safety protections.
UK watchdog fined video app in 2023 for failing to enforce minimum age limit and remove underage usersTikTok will pay a £12.7m fine to the UK’s data watchdog after dropping an appeal against a ruling that it did not do enough to keep children below the age of 13 off the platform.The video app was punished by the Information Commissioner’s Office in 2023 for inadequate checks of who was using the platform, and failing to remove underage users. Continue reading...
