great Britain He got serious with fashionable social networks, tick tock. In particular, the platform has been fined 12.7 million poundsequal to €14.54 millionfor not implementing the necessary measures restricting access to the platform for minors.

That Information Commission Office has stated that the Chinese platform has allowed 1.4 million children minors under 13 will use the platform during 2020 without verifying that the minor has their tutor’s approval to access the appthereby violating the social network’s terms of service statement.

Moreover, the platform has not only adopted a permissive stance, but has also put aside its functionality verify the identity of the minor and remove them from the app. All this despite warnings issued by company employees in the country.

“We have laws in place to keep our children safe in both the digital and physical world. TikTok You have not obeyed this law“, confirmed information commissioner, John Edwards. “They are not doing enough to ascertain who is using their platform,” he has concluded.

In addition, British regulators have imposed a fine of less than £ 27 million, which means €30.91 million, the amount initially claimed. However, the agency decided not to proceed with the investigation into the alleged illegal use of “special category data”. The data includes sensitive information users such as ethnicity, politics, religion, sexual orientation or biometric data.

Additionally, the Chinese platform has rejected the decision saying it was “considering next steps to take“. However, yes been “happy” after seeing the penalty halved.

British government ban

This sanction from the UK authorities comes after a ban issued by the UK Executive vetoed Chinese apps from all government phone due to cybersecurity concerns, as explained to state media by the Chief of Staff, Oliver Dowden.

These restrictions have an impact on mobile devices of civil servants and ministersOf course, its use is limited only on their work terminals and not on their personal cell phones. The veto came after an opinion was issued by experts from the British National Cybersecurity Center regarding data protection. “This is based on the right decision specific risk for government telephones,” Dowden said in the House.

Thus, Executive Rishi Sunak made a 180 degree turn in regards to the position expressed a few weeks earlier by the Secretary for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, who told the media ‘Politico’ that the United Kingdom would not be joining. for the ban decided by the European Commission, which compels its employees uninstall TikTok before March 15th. The Head of Science added that with this application a “personal choice” user.

European Commission veto

It seems that the lack of trust in Chinese social networks is widespread. For the same reason, for improve your cybersecurityThe Commission’s Board of Directors decided to suspend the use of the TikTok application on company devices and on their personal devices members of the Commission’s mobile device service. “This step is intended to protect KPPU against actions and cyber security threats that can be exploited by third parties to carry out cyber attacks against KPPU’s corporate environment. Security advances from other social media platforms as well will always be reviewed”, said them from the mass organization.

After the veto, European sources stated that “the measure complies with strict internal cybersecurity policies Commissions that apply to the use of mobile devices in work-related communications. It also complements the Commission’s long standing recommendations to its staff for implementing best practices when using social media platforms and maintain a high level of cyber awareness in their daily work.”

Another fine for TikTok for data protection

Although the British sanctions were the last, before many regulators They have fined the social network for violating the protection of its users’ data. On January 13th, without going any further, the French National Commission for Informatics and Freedom (CNIL for its French acronym) filed a fine of 5 million euros against TikTok in France over its cookie acceptance policy.

According to the French regulator, which is tasked with ensuring the digital rights of users in France, technology companies are banning users refuse cookies and encourage them to accept it via the button “Thank you all.”

Furthermore, in 2019, TikTok received another million dollar fine $5.7 millionthis time by the United States Federal Trade Commission, the excuse was, once again, to violate children’s privacy law