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

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Martina Lindberg

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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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