According to Bloomberg News on October 16th, TikTok appealed to the court against a fine of 345 million euros (363 million US dollars) imposed by European regulators. The Irish Data Protection Committee, which is responsible for investigating this incident, decided to impose a fine on TikTok in September because the application failed to protect minors from receiving unnecessary data and its behavior was opaque. The survey covers a five-month period from July 2020 to December 31, 2020. TikTok’s data processing violated the provisions of the General Data Protection Ordinance concerning children aged 13 to 17.
The report also said that the Irish data regulator is responsible for all investigations on TikTok, because the platform currently has its company’s base in Europe in Dublin. However, in view of the fact that its alleged infringement involves the whole EU, the final decision must be approved by the European Data Protection Commission (the European regulatory body responsible for implementing the law). The committee, composed of representatives from 30 European countries, expressed concern about TikTok’s way of “encouraging” children to create public accounts and publishing videos publicly online by default.
ByteDance Limited said that it had appealed to the European Union General Court against the penalty and questioned an order issued by the local Irish data regulator, which was aimed at eliminating “cheating or manipulation” that might damage privacy.
Post time: Oct-19-2023