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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 BeFlatXIII »

silvestrov wrote: post #212
yumraj wrote: post #196

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Well add a 3 strikes law [0], after all corporations are supposed to be person, from a legal standpoint. 3 strikes, and the company is dissolved. In fact, this should definitely happen for US credit rating companies which keep on leaking data. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-strikes_law

I think a 3 strike against the CxO as a person will be more effective. 1st strike blocks you from working as CxO for 5 years, 2nd strike for 10 years, 3rd strike is forever. Right now too many bad CxO jump from one ship to the next again and again.

Then you retitle yourself to EVP during the timeout.

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

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Post by varenc »

yumraj wrote: post #187
SeanAnderson wrote: post #185

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What sort of fine would you consider not to be a drop in the bucket? This fine looks to be an estimated 1/8 of TikTok's profit in 2022.

25% of Annual Revenue and firing of all CxOs (CEO, COO, CTO etc)

Assigning blame to the CxOs can be tricky. In this case the actual violations were from 2020, well before the EU even began its investigation, and some of the C-suite staff has changed.

Should it be the current C-suite that’s fired or the ones in charge when the violation occurred? Or maybe the ones in charge when the original policy at TikTok was created? Or what if the current C-suite was in charge, briefly, for the violating period but they’re also they ones that changed things to be in compliance before the investigation began, should they still be fired?

The diffuse responsibility makes this stuff tricky to implement.

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Post by vajrabum »

justinclift wrote: post #211
3np wrote: post #160

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Whoa now, slow down there. Ban some of what TikTok's doing and enforce it fairly? Sure. But let's not actually get more authoritarian here.

Bearing in mind that TikTok is itself banned in China. ;)

That's not exactly true. China has a firewall which restricts access to the internet at large so you can't use Tiktok or Instagram for that matter in China. Tiktok and Douyin (Tiktok in China) are essentially the same app. Douyin has more features and of course since it's in China, more content control.

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

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Post by l33t7332273 »

personomas wrote: post #100
_visgean wrote: post #52

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Why should we? We have rules in place and tiktok broke them -> they get fined. Nothing insane here.

Unbelievable fines, that's the problem in this one case.

I think the fines should be far higher.

If a company chooses to leach data they have a large responsibility to ensure they handle children appropriately.

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Post by bt4u »

wooger wrote: post #194
SeanAnderson wrote: post #185

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What sort of fine would you consider not to be a drop in the bucket? This fine looks to be an estimated 1/8 of TikTok's profit in 2022.

An appropriate punishment would be: All children's accounts must be deleted and no new ones for minors allowed to exist for 2 years. Any further infringement and the App is banned from the EU.

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

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Post by bt4u »

rhyme-boss wrote: post #201
SeanAnderson wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What sort of fine would you consider not to be a drop in the bucket? This fine looks to be an estimated 1/8 of TikTok's profit in 2022.

If you make $100k in a year in wages, and after all your expenses you net $16k in savings, 1/8 of that is $2k. Imagine violating some law that harms children and your fine is $2k.

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Post by tgv »

lakomen wrote: post #13

I was wondering, I've recently picked up Tiktok and on the live streams, despite it saying that you need 1000 followers and be 18 years old, I saw so many kids, live streaming. I was wondering why they didn't enforce their own rules. I'm guessing, too large amount of streamers, but even if you had only one dedicated person, you'd certainly find enough teens or children live streaming. So this is quite the timely ruli…

It has nefast influence on the mind. Children are very susceptible.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

WeylandYutani wrote: post #214
darthrupert wrote: post #69

Is EU the only significant power on this planet that isn't ... for a lack of better word, evil?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/14/black-refugees-stra... The EU is rich and safe and will commit whatever atrocities to maintain it.

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

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Post by Sacho »

WeylandYutani wrote: post #214
darthrupert wrote: post #69

Is EU the only significant power on this planet that isn't ... for a lack of better word, evil?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/14/black-refugees-stra... The EU is rich and safe and will commit whatever atrocities to maintain it.

Tunisia and Libya are not part of the EU.
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