The video-sharing platform has been issued with a final notice of intent by the UK's data watchdog.
TikTok could face a £27m fine for failing to protect children's privacy when they're using the platform.
The notice sets out the ICO's provisional view that TikTok breached UK data protection law between May 2018 and July 2020.processed the data of children under the age of 13 without appropriate parental consent "Companies providing digital services have a legal duty to put those protections in place, but our provisional view is that TikTok fell short of meeting that requirement."
"In addition to this, we are currently looking into how over 50 different online services are conforming with the Children's Code, and have six ongoing investigations looking into companies providing digital services who haven't, in our initial view, taken their responsibilities around child safety seriously enough."
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