United Kingdom.- The social network TikTok hasn’t stopped going downhill in recent months, and a ban has been added to million-dollar fines imposed against the application by british government.

The year 2023 has been chiaroscuro for the Chinese company’s social network bytedanceWell, even though its users are increasing, at the same time several countries have banned its use in government officials.

And after that United States of America took action to remove the Asian social network from the official set of its public servers at the end of last year, considering it to pose a risk to national security, countries such as France, Belgium, Canada, Australia and the UKamong other things, have acted in the same direction.

Now, according to a statement, TikTok has been fined this Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in the amount of 12.7 million pounds sterling, which is about 15.9 million dollars, approx. 288 million 267 thousand Mexican pesos, at today’s exchange rate. It was aforesaid, given that he was issued in “illegal” use of personal data of minors..

As such, the UK’s digital regulator, the ICOsaccused the ByteDance platform of allowing up to 1.4 million babies under 13 years of age in England open an account on their platform in 2020.

In this regard, the European agency stated that, contrary to its official regulations, more than one million British children could create accounts on the short video platform. It also shows that the site use the personal data of minors without the consent of their parents.

“In the UK there are laws to keep our children safe in the digital world and TikTok violates those laws,” said John Edwards, UK information commissioner.

Meanwhile, the UK government stated that Chinese social networks did not carry out “sufficient verification to identify and cancel accounts of children” who were not of the required age to use electronic applications, despite indications made beforehand.