Somehow doubt they will actually pay a penny of it though.
Why would you doubt it? Unless tiktok wins in court, the EU could remove them from all the app stores if they don't pay up.
TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
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Why should the parent's deny the child a smartphone because Tik Tok has terrible data use policies? You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the plan there?
It's the *internet*. You can't regulate everything, it's not going to happen. If they have a smartphone, the kids will get out and explore it if they want to. No amount of GDPR laws and unbelievable penalties are going to stop that. We need to get back to paper and pencil and the value of social skills. Or use a Chromebook in a sandbox if you must use tech.
The EU doesn't have to "regulate everything" to fine companies like TikTok when they break the law. That's a false dilemma.
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"quite" high? Are you serious. These fines are unbelievable.
And yet apparently not enough of a deterrent, because it keeps happening.
This was a one occurrences, and TikTok stopped it 3 years ago. The laws are getting tighter and tighter (and vaguer and vaguer), that's why "it keeps happening".
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#174Any breaking of the law in regards to children needs to absolutely incinerate the offending party, this fine seems like a drop in the bucket. Kids these days are bombarded by terrible industry practices because companies know if they can get a child hooked, they could be a customer for life(or at least a period of time in their adulthood). In the US, kids are advertised to at literally every corner of their life...in their apps, when they go to school, TV, etc...it is actually WILD that this kind of stuff is legal.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Ironically, currently 2023 entries.
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France against french companies: 40M€ for Criteo, 1M€ for Total, 1M+€ for AG2R, 2M€ and 800000€ for Carrefour, 600000€ for EDF, same for Accor, two 300000€ fines for Free, 125000€ for CityScoot, 500000€ for Brico Privé, 400000€ for the RATP. Perhaps others, didn't bother to check any further.
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#176seems dumb. there's nothing stopping a child from lying about their age anyways. how about parents who care about such things just block the TikTok app for their children? if TikTok simply had an age selection box, and if you choose anything under 18 it said "too bad. wait until you're 18", I'm sure all of those children would say, "gee darn it, guess I'll wait" :eyeroll. This sort of nonsense is why government's are…
>at the end of the day these fines exist because it's easy money for the EU - there's really no way of stopping children from using TikTok, or any social media for that matter but the EU knows that so they fine the companies and keep the gravy train going. Actually, the fines exist to make sure laws are respected. Also, the issue wasn't about users lying about their age, it was about underage users signing up for an…
My point is that there's nothing stopping children from having access to all content to begin with because there's nothing stopping children from signing up as an adult.
The correct thing for the EU to do if they actually cared about this is to enforce true validation of ages on social media. This is exactly what's being proposed in the United States, with a 3rd party verification service being required for all social media to actually verify ages.
The law in its current form, both in the EU or United States, is pointless and trivially circumvented. Charging a third of a billion for something like this is so laughable.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
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France against french companies: 40M€ for Criteo, 1M€ for Total, 1M+€ for AG2R, 2M€ and 800000€ for Carrefour, 600000€ for EDF, same for Accor, two 300000€ fines for Free, 125000€ for CityScoot, 500000€ for Brico Privé, 400000€ for the RATP. Perhaps others, didn't bother to check any further.
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#178Where does the money go?
God damnit. You presented a simple question, and at this time 3 different people have answered your question with contradictory answers "General government budget", "The country issuing the fine", and "Into the EU budget".
If you don't know the answer, don't just make up fictions and present it as fact.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's absolutely trivial to confirm that EU countries get fined all the time: https://www.privacyaffairs.com/gdpr-fines/
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Aight, bud. I don't care about gdpr and what not. not an eu citizen nor have any business with them european. tell me what's the difference.
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“I stopped stabbing him once I knew laws against murder were in place, and haven’t stabbed him since!” That’s what your argument sounds like to me.
TikTok is not stabbing anyone just for being a social media platform for kids older than 12. These "kids" are teenagers and young adults. That's nothing even close to stabbing someone. If social media is so bad, that these "kids" shouldn't be using it, then either social media should be banned, or "kids" shouldn't have a smartphone!