Brazilian data protection regulator fines TikTok’s owner nearly $30 million over safety of minors
The regulator said ByteDance processed data from at least 8 million minors without a valid legal basis and ordered deletions, notices and tighter safeguards.
- On Tuesday, Brazil's National Data Protection Authority fined TikTok owner ByteDance 153.8 million reais for allegedly violating the country's General Data Protection Law regarding children's and teenagers' personal data.
- According to ANPD, ByteDance processed personal data of teenagers aged 13 to 18 without a valid legal basis, failing to implement sufficient technical and organizational measures to prevent improper data collection.
- ByteDance must delete personal data of teenagers whose legal representation is not regularized within 60 business days and faces daily fines of 137,081.49 reais for failing to comply with reporting requirements.
- TikTok faces additional restrictions in Brazil, including time limits and suspended advertising for unregistered users, while committing to apply restrictive privacy settings to accounts for users under 16 with parental authorization required for changes.
- This action aligns with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's push for stronger online safeguards; earlier this month, ANPD ordered chat platform Discord to suspend livestreaming features, reflecting a global trend of stricter rules on minors' social media usage.
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The Brazilian Data Protection Agency (ANPD) has fined TikTok the equivalent of 25 million euros. According to the agency, the social media company unlawfully processed data of children and young people.
The Brazilian subsidiary of ByteDance was fined heavily for non-compliance with the legislation on the protection of minors' data. The company had agreed last week to pay up to $400 million to settle a dispute in the United StatesThe Brazilian authorities imposed on Tuesday a heavy fine on TikTok for non-compliance with the legislation on the protection of minors' data, claiming that they wanted to send "a strong signal" to digital platforms.Thi…
Brazil fined TikTok over data from users who never logged in
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account. The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents. TikTok […] This story continues at The Next Web
Brazil accuses TikTok of having unlawfully processed data from children and young people. Similar accusations were made in the USA, even there Tiktok paid millions.
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