Brazil fines TikTok’s owner $29.9m over children’s data, including guest sessions
Brazil has fined TikTok’s owner over the way it handled children’s data, and the ruling covers people who never had an account.
The National Data Protection Agency imposed a penalty of 153.7 million reais on ByteDance on Tuesday, worth about $29.9m. It cited irregularities in the processing of data belonging to children and adolescents.
TikTok breached data privacy law across both logged-in accounts and guest browsing sessions, the regulator said in its ruling. It collected and processed young users’ personal information without a valid legal basis or adequate safeguards.
Mauricio Savarese reported the decision for the Associated Press. Agence France-Presse carried the agency’s figures.
The guest-session finding is the part that travels
Most child-safety enforcement to date has turned on accounts. Regulators ask how old a user said they were, what the platform did to check, and what settings applied afterwards.
Brazil has gone further. Its regulator found that...
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