The UK ICO fines Reddit £14.47M for unlawfully using children's personal information; Reddit began verifying user ages in July 2025 to comply with the UK OSA
Reddit has been fined £14.47m by the UK's data watchdog for unlawfully using children's personal information.
BBC Tom Singleton
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Apple is the only company with a great proposal here: let parents, who buy the devices used by kids, set up kids accounts and decide what they're allowed to do, then pass those decisions to apps through parental controls — without demanding anyone's identity papers.
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We're not the EU with a massive market. At some point these platforms will decide the cost & effort of compliance + fines is not worth the audience/revenue and just geoblock us
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NEW: We've fined Reddit £14.47 million for failing to use children's information lawfully. Read more: https://ico.org.uk/... [image]
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Reddit issued with £14.47m fine for children's privacy failures https://ico.org.uk/... press release from ICO (UK regulator) + coverage https://www.bbc.com/... Reddit reportedly plans to appeal the ICO action #ageverification #dataprotection #censorship #openweb #techpolicy [imag…
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