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‘TikTok should have known better. TikTok should have done better’ says UK ICO after imposing £12.7m fine

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Martina Lindberg

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Messaging app found to have misused data of up to a million children.

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a £12.7m ($15.9m) fine on TikTok Information Technologies UK Limited and TikTok Inc (TikTok) for breaches of the data protection law, and failing to use personal data lawfully.

The regulator estimates that 1.4 million UK children under 13 used TikTok in

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