The U.K. Information Commissioner's Office fined TikTok 12.7 million GBP for breaches of the U.K. General Data Protection Regulation. While TikTok's terms of service states children under age 13 are not allowed to create an account, the ICO estimated more than 1 million U.K. children under 13 were on the platform in 2020. The ICO also said TikTok used personal data of children under 13 without parental consent and did not take sufficient measures to remove underage children from the platform. "TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better," Information Commissioner John Edwards said.
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