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Reddit fined $19.5m for unlawful use of children’s personal information

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The ICO has stepped up enforcement actions against firms that are putting children at risk. Photo: Sebastien Desarmaux/Getty Images.

Hameed Shuja

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The ICO says there is evidence that a large number of children under 13 accessed the platform, and claims Reddit did not have necessary measures in place to verify their ages or suitability of content.

The UK’s Information watchdog has fined social media platform Reddit £14.47m ($19.52m) for unlawfully using children’s personal information. Failures include not properly checking the ages of users on the platform.

The ICO said this was a “serious failure” in age assurance under the UK’s data protection law that put children

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