The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined TikTok €345 million. In its decision adopted on 1 September 2023, it found that the social network was not complying with the obligations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regarding the processing of children’s data.
In particular, the DPC found that underage user profiles are public by default. This practice is all the more risky when children under the age of 13 manage to create an account despite being banned from...