TIME.CO, Jakarta – The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced a fine of €345 million (approximately Rp 5.6 trillion) Tick tock on how the company processes data children.
“The fine follows an investigation conducted by the DPC in 2021 examining TikTok’s compliance with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law,” as reported by The Verge on September 15, 2023. Politico reported in August that the DPC was preparing to issue its sanction.
This investigation focuses on several features of TikTok, namely account default settings; “Family Association” settings; and age verification. After consulting the European Data Protection Board, the DPC found that TikTok sets children’s accounts as public by default when they register on the platform. This means that kids’ videos are publicly viewable by default, and comments, duets, and Stitch features are also enabled by default.
Family Pairing, a feature introduced by TikTok in 2020, allows you to link children’s accounts with separate adult accounts, in theory to manage app settings, such as limiting screen time and limiting direct messages and potentially content inappropriate.
The DPC found that children’s TikTok accounts may be linked to profiles that the company had not verified as belonging to a parent or guardian. Once linked, child profile settings can be relaxed by adult users to allow DMs.
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One sticking point is whether TikTok has done enough to keep children under 13 off the platform through age verification. While the ruling said TikTok’s age verification methods did not violate GDPR law, it determined that the company did not adequately protect the privacy of children under 13 who may register for an account.
In 2021, TikTok tightened privacy settings on accounts belonging to users aged 13 to 15, making them more private by default. TikTok has three months to implement its practices.
Other social media platforms have been fined by the DPC for similar offenses involving young users. Meta was fined more than $400 million in 2022 for allowing teenage Instagram users to sign up for business profiles, making their contact information public, among other things.
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