Tiktok's owner made $80B last year, as much as Tencent—recent £12.7M fine for collecting kids' data hardly makes a dent.
that no one under the age of 13 may use the video sharing app. It says,"We monitor for underage use and we will terminate your account if we reasonably suspect that you are underage."
That wasn't enough for the ICO, however. It estimates up to 1.4 million children under 13 in the UK used the platform in 2020, and that TikTok failed to adequately check for the lot of them. "As a consequence, an estimated one million under 13s were inappropriately granted access to the platform, with TikTok collecting and using their personal data," John Edwards, UK information commissioner, says."That means that their data may have been used to track them and profile them, potentially delivering harmful, inappropriate content at their very next scroll."