{"id":1909866,"date":"2023-04-04T20:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T00:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-fines-tiktok-16-million-for-collecting-kids-data\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T20:18:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T00:18:31","slug":"uk-fines-tiktok-16-million-for-collecting-kids-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-fines-tiktok-16-million-for-collecting-kids-data\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Fines TikTok $16 Million for Collecting Kids&#8217; Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fuk-fines-tiktok-16-million-for-collecting-kids-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1909866&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The British government privacy watchdog imposed a nearly $16 million fine on popular Chinese social media app TikTok for misusing children&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office (ICO) in the UK charged TikTok with illegal data collection from children and violation of British laws, according to ABC News. The app allegedly allowed over a million underage children to create accounts, breaching TikTok&#8217;s own terms.<\/p>\n<p>The news of the fine comes as the platform is under global scrutiny for national security threats and privacy concerns linked to its close ties with China&#8217;s Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did not do enough to check who was using their platform or take sufficient action to remove the underage children who were using their platform,&#8221; said Information Commissioner John Edwards in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>British laws require parental consent before collecting any online data of children. Though TikTok&#8217;s terms enforce the minimum age limit of 13 years, the app still allowed 1.4 million British children under 13 years to use the service last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are laws in place to make sure our children are as safe in the digital world as they are in the physical world,&#8221; Edwards said. &#8220;TikTok did not abide by those laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TikTok, however, disputed the allegations against the platform.<\/p>\n<p>In the US, TikTok and its CEO Shou Zi Chew have faced bipartisan scrutiny over national security concerns. During a House hearing last month, Chew refused to verify that ByteDance, the Chinese-controlled parent company, could seize user data, according to the Free Beacon. Sens. John Thune (R., S.D.) and Mark Warner (D., Va.) had noted earlier that the Chinese-controlled app is &#8220;ultimately required to do the bidding of Chinese intelligence services, should they be called upon to do so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE PHOTO: A TikTok logo is displayed on a smartphone in this illustration taken January 6, 2020. REUTERS\/Dado Ruvic A British government privacy watchdog fined Chinese social media app TikTok nearly $16 million for misusing child users&#8217; data. Britain\u2019s Information Commissioner&#8217;s Office on Tuesday fined TikTok the equivalent of $15.9 million on allegations of illegal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1708,"featured_media":1909867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[9404,23550,6441,5621,4247,6248],"class_list":["post-1909866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-9404","tag-collecting","tag-data","tag-fines","tag-kids","tag-tiktok"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1708"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}