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TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by riffraff »

malermeister wrote: post #36
skilled wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, right? It's like they can make so much money from tracking people in other countries/jurisdictions that paying a fine to the EU once in a while is just part of the payroll.

I think if that's the case, the fines will have to be increased until we reach a point where they succeed at their task of disincentivizing this behavior.

GDPR already has a provision for this (it accounts for repeated violations and collaboration), and a ceiling of 4% of global revenue is quite high.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by _visgean »

personomas wrote: post #46
corbezzoli wrote: post #3

That's quite a fine for a single-country ruling, it's like 2.6% of a year of revenue — or 10 days.

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Why should we? We have rules in place and tiktok broke them -> they get fined.

Nothing insane here.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by personomas »

nitaigao wrote: post #49
personomas wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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The article states: "It found that the “family pairing” scheme, which gives an adult control over a child’s account settings, did not check whether the adult “paired” with the child user was a parent or guardian." Chapter 8, Article 1 of the GDPR[1] states: "Where the child is below the age of 16 years, such processing shall be lawful only if and to the extent that consent is given or authorised by the holder of pare…

Ok, in this one case, it's not that vague. But GDPR in general is extremely vague. Digital Markets Act, extremely vague.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by joe__f »

skilled wrote: post #32
mchanson wrote: post #10

This is pretty interesting time with the social media / data companies. Will this be the new normal? Where, like clock work, another fine gets announced? Or will we transition through this period into one where they know how to, and also do, comply and the regulations don't change a ton?

Interesting, right? It's like they can make so much money from tracking people in other countries/jurisdictions that paying a fine to the EU once in a while is just part of the payroll.

€345M is a pretty huge amount of money

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by mschild »

personomas wrote: post #41
mtmail wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> we made changes to well before the investigation even began Tiktok was not compliant before 2021. Being compliant in 2022 doesn't magically end an investigation or sentence.

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GDPR doesn't go far enough and I think courts need to hand out significantly more fines.

Yes, that fine is a lot. It's supposed to be high. That's the only way that fines work. If it doesn't hurt a company's bottom line, they don't learn.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by personomas »

joe__f wrote: post #54
skilled wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, right? It's like they can make so much money from tracking people in other countries/jurisdictions that paying a fine to the EU once in a while is just part of the payroll.

€345M is a pretty huge amount of money

Especially when you consider that it was stopped 3 years ago.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by personomas »

riffraff wrote: post #51
malermeister wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think if that's the case, the fines will have to be increased until we reach a point where they succeed at their task of disincentivizing this behavior.

GDPR already has a provision for this (it accounts for repeated violations and collaboration), and a ceiling of 4% of global revenue is quite high.

"quite" high? Are you serious. These fines are unbelievable.

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by malermeister »

personomas wrote: post #57
riffraff wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GDPR already has a provision for this (it accounts for repeated violations and collaboration), and a ceiling of 4% of global revenue is quite high.

"quite" high? Are you serious. These fines are unbelievable.

Good, they might actually work then!

Re: TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts

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Post by firesteelrain »

personomas wrote: post #56
joe__f wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

€345M is a pretty huge amount of money

Especially when you consider that it was stopped 3 years ago.

Except it didn’t. My daughter in the US created an account and it didn’t require any family pairing or verification that the adult paired with her was her parent
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