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TikTok fined £12.7m by ICO for misusing children's data

While an outright ban looms over the Chinese-owned app's future in Western societies, TikTok may have to pay £12.7m in fines to the UK government.

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A U.K. agency has fined TikTok nearly $16 million for handling of children's data

The U.K.'s Information Commissioner's Office said there were up to 1.4 million children under the age of 13 on the app in 2020, despite TikTok's terms of service saying users must be 13 to sign up.

WEKU

TikTok owner made $80B last year, probably not squirming over £12.7m fine for collecting children's data

ByteDance's revenue explodes as TikTok grows in popularity. But yikes, UK authority announces a fine for failing to protect children.

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Watchdog fines TikTok £12.7m for ‘misusing children’s data’ and allowing underage kids on the app

It means children's data may have been used to potentially deliver harmful content at their very next scroll

Manchester Evening News

TikTok has been fined €14.5m for failing to protect the privacy of children's data

TikTok allowed up to 1.4 million kids under the age of 13 to use its platform in 2020

Irish Mirror

TikTok fined £12.7m for illegally processing children’s data

Information commissioner says app had done ‘very little, if anything’ to check for underage users

The Guardian - UK

TechScape: Elon Musk promised to take away the blue ticks – so why hasn’t he?

In this week’s newsletter: After weeks of warnings, Twitter appears to have backed down on plans to do away with one of Musk’s original obsessions.

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TikTok fined £12.7 million by UK watchdog for mishandling children’s data

TikTok has been fined £12.7 million by a UK watchdog for mishandling children’s data.

Evening Standard

UK watchdog warns chatbot developers over data protection laws

Concerns have arisen over tech firms using masses of unfiltered personal data culled from the internet to ‘train’ generative AI

The Guardian - UK

UK DPDI bill seeks to reform GDPR - here's what you need to know

While it has the potential to save billions to the UK economy, civil societies warn the DPDI "will seriously weaken data protection rights in the UK."

TechRadar

Police reject rules changes that would have kept names of suspects secret

Crime reporters had warned the changes could usher in a “new chilling era of secret justice"

Manchester Evening News

Do not expect privacy if charged with a crime, says police standards body

College of Policing statement comes after ICO proposes forces across England and Wales no longer ‘should’ name those charged

The Guardian - UK

London council ‘kept hundreds of people in dark by failing to reply to information requests’, ICO rules

Enforcement action has been taken against Lewisham Council after it failed to respond to more than 300 Freedom of Information requests

Evening Standard

HMRC lost nearly 50% more devices in 2022, nearly 2,000 missing since 2017

IT device losses at HMRC increased by nearly 50% in the space of a year, according to Freedom of Information Act (FOI) requests submitted in 2022. Statistics released under the FOI act show that between September 2021 and 2022, HMRC declared 635 lost and stolen devices. SEE MORE HMRC tells…

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Daily Mirror

Grammar school headteacher leaves after parents sent list of teachers going on strike

Charlotte Jordan left King Edward VI Five Ways Grammar school in Birmingham after parents received a list of teachers going on strike and a data breach investigation was launched

Daily Record

Warning to parents as YouTube accused of tracking children's viewing habits

A campaigner filed a complaint against YouTube for allegedly gathering viewing data of children younger than 13.

The Independent UK

War of words erupts over Covid Whatsapp messages

An extraordinary war of words has erupted over events at the centre of government during the Covid pandemic after more than 100,000 of Matt Hancock’s Whatsapp messages were leaked.

The Guardian - UK

Man files complaint accusing YouTube of harvesting UK children’s data

Duncan McCann’s complaint is first one alleging major tech firm has broken new code

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Dad files complaint against YouTube for allegedly gathering data on children

'Imagine YouTube as an adult stranger following your child ‘online’ with a virtual clipboard recording everything they do'

The Independent UK

Nicola Bulley: What investigations have been launched and why?

The 45-year-old’s body was recovered from the River Wye in Lancashire on Sunday.

The Independent UK

1 in 4 children’s apps on Google Play collecting personal data from kids

Research found that many apps did not comply with the ICO code which sets out how UK data protection rules apply to children using digital services.

Evening Standard

What is Cambridge Analytica? Group manipulated Nigerian election

Previously known as SCL USA, Cambridge Analytica was a British political consulting firm that came to prominence through the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal.

Daily Mirror

£200,000 fine for firm that made three scam calls per minute for 11 months

"They try to con you into thinking they are your washing machine insurers" - victim

The Guardian - UK

‘Aims’: the software for hire that can control 30,000 fake online profiles

Exclusive: Team Jorge disinformation unit controls vast army of avatars with fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Instagram, Amazon and Airbnb

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet Office faced criminal probe over blocked Spycatcher documents

Freedom of information watchdog’s investigation team called in after UK officials repeatedly refused access to government files

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