Brazil fines TikTok $30m for child data privacy violations
Owner ByteDance ordered to erase illegally obtained child data in Brazil as crackdown on tech giants intensifies. Brazil’s data protection authority has fined TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, nearly $30m for the alleged mishandling of children and teenagers’ personal data, in the nation’s latest move against social media companies.
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- Fact 1: Brazil’s data protection authority has fined TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, nearly $30m for the alleged mishandling of children and teenagers’ personal data, in the nation’s latest move against social media companies.
- Fact 2: Brazil’s president says Amazon oil is ‘passport to the future’ Brazil bus crash kills at least 23 and injures five in Parana state Brazil launches AI supercomputer push while balancing US and Chinese tech The regulator estimated that TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 million children, highlighting what they said were systemic deficiencies within the platform’s age-verification mechanism.
- Fact 3: The company can still appeal the decision in the next 10 days, according to the regulator.
- Fact 4: The move came after a 13-year-old girl died by suicide following a livestream in which authorities say she was encouraged to harm herself.
Owner ByteDance ordered to erase illegally obtained child data in Brazil as crackdown on tech giants intensifies. Brazil’s data protection authority has fined TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, nearly $30m for the alleged mishandling of children and teenagers’ personal data, in the nation’s latest move against social media companies.
The regulatory body said in its ruling that TikTok had breached data privacy laws across both logged-in accounts and guest browsing sessions by collecting and processing young users’ personal information without a valid legal basis or adequate safeguards. Brazil’s president says Amazon oil is ‘passport to the future’ Brazil bus crash kills at least 23 and injures five in Parana state Brazil launches AI supercomputer push while balancing US and Chinese tech The regulator estimated that TikTok may have processed the data of at least 8 million children, highlighting what they said were systemic deficiencies within the platform’s age-verification mechanism. The company can still appeal the decision in the next 10 days, according to the regulator.
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Original source: Al Jazeera
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