Brazilian data protection regulator fines TikTok’s owner nearly $30 million over safety of minors
The regulator said TikTok processed minors’ data without a valid legal basis and ordered ByteDance to delete improper records and tighten 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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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.
TikTok is already under pressure because of the handling of minors in several countries. Now it hits the platform also in Latin America's largest country.
LAPD states that it has identified "irregularities in the processing of data of children and adolescents".
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Brazil has taken a tough stance on the regulation of social media platforms, cracking down on disinformation and requiring users under 16 to have their accounts linked to those of their parents. Fabricio Lopes, an enforcement director with the ANPD data protection agency, told a press conference that TikTok "was not taking the necessary measures to prevent adolescents from accessing the platform and from having the data of these children and ado…
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