TikTok fined £1.87m for providing inaccurate data on safety controls

TikTok failed to fully cooperate with Ofcom for the purposes of producing the Child Safety Report.

TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited has been fined £1.875m ($2.4m) for failing to properly respond to a formal request for information about its parental controls safety feature.

The Office of Communications (Ofcom) earlier requested TikTok to provide information about its parental controls feature, which it needed to

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