Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €345M after finding the company in breach of GDPR in relation to its handling of children's data and gives three months to comply
It's been a long time coming but TikTok has finally been found in breach of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation …
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Discussion
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@bartclaeys
Bart Claeys
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Good to see Europe is diversifying it's income sources.
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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TikTok is solidly a big tech company now. It's on the list of gatekeepers as defined by the EU's digital markets act (DMA) and now has their first GDPR fine. I remember when musical.ly was a cute little lip syncing app popular with teens. You either die a hero or live long eno…
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@dpcireland
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New Decision 📝 Irish Data Protection Commission announces €345 million fine of TikTok. Press release 👉 https://www.dataprotection.ie/ ... [image]
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@adrianweckler
Adrian Weckler
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TikTok is really, really popular with kids. This month, a survey of 5,000 Irish schoolchildren found that the majority of 12-year-olds in Ireland use TikTok, ranging between 55pc in primary school to 80pc in secondary school.
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@theobertram
Theo Bertram
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Today's decision primarily relates to features & settings in the app as it was in 2020. Most of the criticisms are no longer relevant because we changed the settings before the investigation even began, such as making all under-16 accounts private-by-default back in early 2021.
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@robertjbateman
Robert Bateman
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TikTok's response to today's €3.45m GDPR fine. They already fixed it. Fair enough to point this out, as the DPC does in its decision. That's why fines *do* matter a bit—most stuff gets fixed with a tap on the shoulder, but the unlawfulness still needs addressing. [image]
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@bhaggart
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Honest question (and not in a trollish way): Are these online platforms less law-abiding than companies in other sectors of the economy, or other, non-infrastructural types of company? When every day seems to bring another set of huge fines, it sometimes seems that way.
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@5rightsfound
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It's important that tech companies are held fully accountable for the safety and privacy of children. Gone are the days when unclear info could be used to trick children to give up give up their data. #Tiktok
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@tiktokcomms
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@DPCIreland today announced the decision of its investigation into TikTok. Read more about our response and how we're committed to continuing to strengthen protections for teenagers on our platform. 👇https://newsroom.tiktok.com/ ...
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@carolinegreer
Caroline Greer
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The 🇮🇪 DPC decision published today in relation to TikTok focuses on settings in place in 2020. Most criticisms are no longer relevant as we made changes before the investigation even began, eg setting all <16 accounts to private by default. More here: https://newsroom.tiktok.com…
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@mikarv
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Interesting that TikTok also commissioned a report and submitted it in defence of the transparency of privacy settings to children, written by @alicetiara Alice Marwick, but its conclusion was rejected by the Irish DPC.
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@lukolejnik
Lukasz Olejnik
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Blacked out, suggest it's only the tip of the iceberg though. #GDPR.
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@evan_greer
@evan_greer
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This seems fine/good. I oppose misguided calls to “ban” TikTok, but I have zero problems with fining the shit out of them for violating privacy laws https://www.politico.eu/...
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@ali_lev
Alexandra S. Levine
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TikTok's lead regulator in the EU has fined the company $370M for children's privacy violations under GDPR. Other TikTok fines related to kids' data: Britain: $16M in 2023. Netherlands: ~$1M in 2021. FTC: $5.7M https://musical.ly/ settlement in 2019.https://www.forbes.com/ ...
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@robertjbateman
Robert Bateman
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TikTok gets a €345 million fine from the Irish DPC after another “binding decision” from colleagues at the EDPB. Main issues: • Data minimisation • Data protection by design and by default • Security • Transparency No Art 8 GDPR (children's consent), BUT... [image]
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@lukolejnik
Lukasz Olejnik
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€345,000,000 fine for TikTok. Violation of data protection rules. The details are SHOCKING. #GDPR https://edpb.europa.eu/... [image]
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TikTok is hit with $368 million fine under Europe's strict data privacy rules
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