China Short Video Platform Douyin Overseas Tiktok is suspected of violating the protection of children's data and was fined 345 million euros (about 502 million yuan) by the European Union.
Comprehensive Bloomberg and Reuters report, the Irish Data Protection Commission said on Friday (September 15) that Douyin failed to protect minors from July 31 to December 31, 2020 from July 31 to December 31st.Unnecessary data processing and did not act in a transparent manner, violating a number of EU privacy laws.
The Irish Data Protection Commission conducted a survey on multiple functions provided by Tiktok to children users since September 2021. It was found that during 2020, TIKTOK's "family pairing" function allows children's accounts to be able to verify without verification.User contact, but did not confirm whether the user's parent or guardian of the child, also preset the data of children aged 13 to 17 to be publicized to allow anyone to view and contact them.
Tiktok later increased stricter restrictions on the "family pairing" function in November 2020, and changed the default setting of all registered user information for all registered user information to "privacy" from January 2021.
The Irish Data Protection Commission said that 134 million users in the European Union used Tiktok each month, but the platform failed to provide children and parents with sufficient information transparency to allow them to fully understand the use of personal data.Causes many users to face privacy leaks unconsciously.
The committee said that it will give Tiktok for three months to rectify the above data infringement and ensure that all data processing is compliant.
For this penalty, Tiktok European high -level Elaine Fox responded that the company would continue to strengthen protection measures for young users;
A spokesman for Tiktok said that the company did not agree with this decision, especially the scale of fines, and Tiktok had taken remedial measures before the investigation in September 2021.Applicable.
